Leadership in Government, Politics, and Business

Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Directory of Latino Candidates in Massachusetts, 1968-1994, by Carol Hardy-Fanta (with the Gaston Institute)(June 1996).

Speaking from Experience; a Handbook of Successful Strategies by and for Latino Candidates in Massachusetts, by Carol Hardy-Fanta (with the Gaston Institute)(1996).

Girls and Adolescents

Research on girls and politics, especially the factors that predict whether girls will vote or consider running for office when they reach adulthood.

Economic and Social Status of Women

From Dialogue to Action: The Mass Action for Women Audit. This statewide organizing and participatory action research project will produce fact sheets on the status of women and girls in Massachusetts and a publication of a Resource Manual for Regional Facilitators; Regional Women's Research and Action Committees. (To be completed September 2001.)

Law/Legal Issues/Incarceration/Crime

Alternatives to Incarceration for Substance Abusing Female Offenders. This research study produced academic papers and presentations at conferences.

Minors' Abortion Rights Project. This project examined the experiences of minors seeking judicial bypass in order to obtain an abortion in Massachusetts.

Politics

The Center does ongoing research on women in politics in Massachusetts including gender analysis of Massachusetts and national public opinion polls, political profiles of women in the state, studies of Latina women in politics, and the intersection of gender, race and ethnicity with politics. It also hosts numerous public forums including a televised Gubernatorial Candidates Forum on Issues of Concern to Women.

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CWPP Women's News is a biweekly publication available online. It summarizes recent acquisitions for our Information Resource Center, highlights of political news affecting women in the Commonwealth, and provides alerts to upcoming events of interest to women.

Research Reports

Albelda, Randy, and Christa Kelleher. 2010. Women in the Down Economy: Impacts of the Recession and the Stimulus in Massachusetts. Download

Hardy-Fanta, Carol. 2009. Stepping Up: Managing Diversity in Challenging Times - The First Annual Report of Commonwealth Compact Benchmark Data. (May). Download

Kates, Erika, Sylvia Mignon and Paige Ransford. 2008. Parenting from Prison: Family Relationships of Incarcerated Women in Massachusetts. Research Report. Boston: Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston. (June). Download

Hardy-Fanta, Carol, and Kacie Kelly. 2007. Women of Talent: Gender and Government Appointments in Massachusetts, 2002–2007. Research Report. Boston: Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy and the Massachusetts Government Appointments Project (MassGAP), McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston (November). Download

A Tale of Two Decades: Changes in Work and Family in Massachusetts, 1979-1999, by Randy Albelda and Marlene Kim. (Report produced by the Donahue Institute of the Univeristy of Massachusetts, and UMass Boston's Center for Social Policy, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, and Labor Resource Center.)(July 2002)

Girls and Politics: Predictors of Political Ambition, by Claire Benedict, with Carol Hardy-Fanta. A Pilot Study, May 2002.

Connecting for Change: Results of the Mass Action for Women Audit November, 2001. (Also Available on CD).

A Policy Brief: Mental Health Needs Of Women In Transition From Welfare To Work, by Carol L. Cardozo and Lisa K. Sussman, June 2001.

Report on the Minors' Abortion Rights Project, by J. Shoshanna Erlich, Carol Hardy-Fanta and Jamie Ann Sabino (with the Law Center), June 2001.

Alternatives to Incarceration for Substance-Abusing Female Defendants/Offenders in Massachusetts, 1996-1998, by Carol Hardy-Fanta and Sylvia Mignon, October 2000.

Latina Women in Politics, by Lisa Montoya, L., Carol Hardy-Fanta, and Sonia Garcia. PS: Political Science and Politics, Special Symposium Issue on Latino Politics, 33(3) September 2000.

Making Family Leave More Affordable in Massachusetts: The Temporary Disability Insurance Model: A Policy Brief, by Jillian Dickert, August 1999.

Welfare Reform and Barriers to Work in Massachusetts: A Policy Brief, by Susan Pachikara, November 1998.

A Latino Gender Gap? Evidence from the 1996 Election, by Carol Hardy-Fanta, Milenio, No. 2, February 2000.

Latino Electoral Campaigns in Massachusetts--the Impact of Gender, by Carol Hardy-Fanta (with the Gaston Institute)(1997).

Opportunities and Dilemmas for Women Elected Officials in Massachusetts, by Elizabeth Sherman and Susan Rohrbach, December 1996.

Fact Sheets and Statistical Profiles

Ransford, Paige and Miriam Lazewatsky. 2008. Women’s Municipal Leadership in Massachusetts.(March). Fact sheet. Download

Women and Pensions in Massachusetts, by Ellen Bruce, A CWPPP Fact Sheet, August 2002.

Who's in Charge? Appointments of Women to Policymaking Offices and Boards in Massachusetts, by Carol Hardy-Fanta. A CWPPP Fact Sheet, September 2002.

Mass Action West Profile of Women and Girls, (with Mass Action for Women), Winter 2001.

Area Metropolitana de Boston; Perfil de las Mujeres y las Ninas (with Mass Action for Women), Invierno de 2001.

Southeastern Profile of Women and Girls (with Mass Action for Women), Winter 2001.

Greater Boston Profile of Women and Girls (with Mass Action for Women), Winter 2000.

Political Profile of Women in Massachusetts, (with the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus), October 1997.

Economic Profile of Women in Massachusetts, by Randy Albelda, 1995.

Occasional Papers, Monographs, & Books

Latino Politics in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies and Prospects, ed. Carol Hardy-Fanta with Jeffrey Gerson. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Gender Politics: Progress for Paid Family Leave in Massachusetts, by Elizabeth A. Sherman, New England Journal of Public Policy (forthcoming).

Comparable Worth Policy: Opportunities for Gender and Racial Equality, by Elizabeth Sherman, Women's Policy Journal of Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Vol. 1, Summer 2001.

Not for Lack of Trying: The Struggle Over Welfare Reform in Massachusetts, 1992-1998, by Ann Withorn with Carol Hardy-Fanta, March 1999.

Collision Course? Massachusetts Families and the Economy at the Crossroads, compiled and edited by Randy Albelda, Diane D'Arrigo and Phyllis Freeman, June 1996.

Directory of Latino Candidates in Massachusetts, 1968-1994, by Carol Hardy-Fanta (with the Gaston Institute), June 1996.

Speaking from Experience; a Handbook of Successful Strategies by and for Latino Candidates in Massachusetts, by Carol Hardy-Fanta (with the Gaston Institute), 1996.

Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture and Political Participation in Boston, by Carol Hardy-Fanta. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1993.

Opportunities for Collaboration

• Contract with the Center to complete a research project on a topic of interest of your agency or organization.
• Have the Center produce an evaluation needed by your agency or organization.
• Serve as a Visiting Scholar at the Center.
• Explore the possibility of a Research Internship.

Environment

Earth Charter Summit. On September 29, 2001, WCEIA convened a day-long Earth Charter Summit, one of twelve around the country that were linked together at two points during the day, with over 150 participants and 45 speakers, to build support for the Earth Charter document, which lays out 16 principles for a just, sustainable and peaceful global society.

Global Feminism

Gender Equality Commission Training. In June 2000, Croatian women leaders took part in this three week training, designed by Anne B. Zill and executed in Washington, D.C., New York (at the United Nations in conjunction with the Beijing + 5 proceedings) and in Maine. Participants were exposed to women leaders on the national, international and state levels in government, industry, academia and civil society.

In July 2001, Bulgarian women mayors were trained for two weeks in advocacy, coalition-building, issue development, and democracy in Maine and Washington, DC.

Other

Cuba: Hearts and Minds and Past and Present. 2007. An exhibition of historical and contemporary art by Cuban, Cuban-American and American Artists about the "Island."

Annual Reports

Zill, Anne B. From Civil Society to Critical Mass: Women's Leadership , Global Security & Democracy in the 21st Century. 2002.

Consider the following list of values: consistency, inclusivity, inter-connectivity, collaboration, empathy, transparency, practicality, and long-term, big-picture considerations. How does the conduct of our government reflect these values? And what is to be done? This paper posits the proposition that the United States government is doing only fair to middling in these early days of the 21st century, that our democracy needs reinvigorating, renewed attention to these core values, as well as to the rule of law itself. A critical mass of women in positions of leadership in government and civil society could speed up this process.

Leadership and Leadership Development

WINGS. Eight-month, memntoring program that  links Rutgers undergraduates with senior professional women.  

CLASP. Five-week, Rutgers undergraduate summer service-learning program which places students in social justice internships.

Executive Leadership Program For Women. Intensive workshop series for women leaders holding senior-level positions in industry, the professions, and Non-Profit Organizations.    

Scholars Program for Women's Leadership and Social Change.The IWL Leadership Scholars Program has an interdisciplinary focus and is designed to prepare undergraduate students to be informed and responsible leaders. Women's leadership is explored within such diverse areas as Congressional offices, scientific laboratories, community volunteer projects, classrooms, corporate board rooms, and more. The program involves a coordinated academic sequence that introduces students to effective models of leadership.

Transforming Lives-Women's Leadership Interview Project. The purpose of the Transforming Lives project is to inspire and empower women of all ages to make positive change in their own lives, in their communities, in our state, nation, and the world. This educational initiative is a significant opportunity for Rutgers undergraduate students in the IWL Leadership Scholars Certificate Program to learn about leadership from women change makers, and to gain an understanding of the use of media as a vital tool for creating social change in the 21st century. 

NJ WomenCount. NJ WomenCount began as an Institute research project in 1993, was reborn in the fall of 2001 as a research partnership between Rutgers’ Institute for Women’s Leadership and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, the Division on Women, and is once again a stand-alone research project at the IWL. The reports in the series focus on the status of New Jersey women in key areas of demographics and activism, work, education, health, poverty, the law, and violence against women. Since 2007, the Institute has published Women’s Leadership Fact Sheets as part of the project, and will continue to publish occasional reports. By bringing together available data, analyzing demographic trends, and identifying research gaps, we hope that NJ WomenCount will serve as a valuable tool to inform equitable policies and effective programs and increase public awareness of women’s leadership progress and challenges. 

National Dialogue on Educating Women for Leadership. The National Dialogue on Educating Women for Leadership was launched in 2000; the series is our effort to encourage a national, ongoing conversation about the development, meaning, and social impact of women’s leadership.    

Past Projects:  

Re-Imagining Work and Community: Work, Family, and Community in the Lives of New Jersey Professional Women, 2001-2005.  This collaborative research project between the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Center for Women and Work, which was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, investigated the ways that professional women in dual-earner households define and interact with their multiple communities.

Women in the Public Sphere. With the Institute for Research on Women, IWL held a conference on Power, Practice, and Agency in May of 1998 targeted at audiences inside and beyond the university.

Talking Leadership. This project includes conversations with powerful women about how and why women lead, what barriers women face to obtaining leadership positions, and how these obstacles were addressed. Interviewees included Mildred Dresselhaus, bell hooks, Patricia Schroeder, and many more.

Hartman, Mary S. (ed.). Theorizing the Practice (forthcoming).

Trigg, Mary K. (ed.). 2010. Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.  

Brown-Glaude, Winnifred R (ed.). 2008. Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 

Hartman, Mary S. (ed.). 1999. Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

IWL Newsletter. The Institute for Women’s Leadership publishes periodic newsletters to share events and progress from the Institute and consortium members.

Visiting Scholars Program. Programs sponsored by the Institute and Consortium Members for guest scholars, researchers, and others to visit Rutgers.

Mary S. Hartman Women's Leadership Opportunity Fund at the Institute for Women's Leadership. The purpose of this Fund is to provide Rutgers undergraduate students with opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom through academic conferences, internships, research experiences, national summit meetings, leadership training, and skills workshops. 

Communications

Women in the Information Age. This research agenda is a collaboration of WAPPP and the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, which looks at how, compared to the Industrial Revolution, women currently occupy stronger and more visible positions in shaping the large-scale social, political, and industry changes that accompany the transition to the Information Age. Yet much needs to be done to bring women and girls into the cyber era on an equal footing with men and boys. This project will craft public and corporate policy agendas across the spectrum of issues that affect women in relation to information technology. In the year 2000-2001, experts in the field will come to the Kennedy School to participate in a lecture series and conference. The project will produce an edited volume analyzing women's experience with technology in the information age: their access to it, their use of it, and the power it can provide.

Recently, project director Jane Fountain was appointed to the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), based in Washington, DC. Chaired by former Netscape Communications CEO Jim Barksdale and GA Tech President Wayne Clough, IPI is considered the nation's first major independent, nonprofit research and educational body designed to study and interpret the Internet.

Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Race, Gender, and the Making of Public Policy Professionals. WAPPP-affiliated faculty member Carol Chetkovich heads this study of race, gender, and the making of public policy professionals, interviewing students at both the Kennedy School of Government and Berkeley.

Women of Color Podium. This ongoing initiative reaches across barriers of gender, class and ethnicity to bring diverse women to the Kennedy School, highlighting their work, adding their voices to the policy discussions carried on throughout the Harvard community, and providing role models to minority women students. Visiting women participate in public forums and other events, guest lecture in classrooms, contribute material for case studies highlighting achievements of women of color, and act as mentors. A recent addition to the initiative is the Women of Color Database, a resource for organizations to contact prominent women of color from varied fields of interest and occupation.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

The Harvard Unviersity Guide to Faculty Research in Gender and Public Policy. A WAPPP survey of the research being done throughout Harvard University, resulting in a resource that connects researchers, students and other scholars. The Guide to Faculty Research can be found on the website.

The Harvard University Guide to Gender-Related Courses. A comprehensive reference guide to all gender-related courses being offered at Harvard University designed to simplify the locating of gender-related courses and to make the process of studying gender easier for students. The Guide to Gender-Related Courses can be found on the WAPPP website.

The WAPPP Working Papers Series. The series provides a public forum for the distribution and publication of faculty and student research related to women and public policy and is available on the website.

Global Feminism
Peace and Conflict Resolution

Women Waging Peace. Launched in December 1999, this multi-year, global venture connects women addressing conflicts worldwide. The initiative breaks new ground by recognizing the essential role and contribution of women in preventing violent conflict, stopping war, reconstructing ravaged societies, and sustaining peace in fragile areas around the world. It has helped to bridge divides between communities in conflict, as well as among policy shapers, academics, and grassroots activists. During the public policy roundtable event on December 16, 1999, 100 delegates from conflict areas Armenia/Azerbaijan, Boston urban neighborhoods, Colombia, Cyprus, India/Pakistan, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, the post-Yugoslav region, South Africa, and Sudan forged ties among themselves and with some 200 policy shapers-UN and World Bank officials, State Department officers, funders and journalists.

The second phase of the Women Waging Peace Initiative will add four new conflict areas: Sri Lanka, Russia, Rwanda, and Mexico. Delegates from all 14 areas, including ten delegates from each new area, will convene at the Kennedy School of Government in November 2000 for the second annual Women Waging Peace Conference. Delegates will continue their efforts to unite women and to support peace-making campaigns.

In June 2000 during the Beijing + 5 proceedings, female delegates from several conflict areas participated in a round table discussion on women's involvement in policymaking and conflict resolution. This discussion, entitled: "New Alliances: International Security and Women Waging Peace" at New York's 92nd Street YMCA, featured Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordon, General Wesley Clark, and Leon Fuerth, as well as eight representatives from conflict areas, in a discussion of women as peacemakers, women in conflict, and women at the policy table. The program was also mentioned in the foreign ministers' joint communiqué at the G-8 summit.

GRICAR: Gender Research in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. This project works at several tiers and across disciplines, linking gender research, professional practice in mediation and negotiation, and theories of conflict prevention, management and resolution. WAPPP cosponsors with the Kennedy School's Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) a six-week course on "Women and Grassroots: New Models for Social Cohesion in Divided Societies." Taught by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, students analyze women's experiences in international conflicts in terms of how they contribute to alternative approaches in political negotiation and conflict resolution, complement traditional government-led initiatives, and differ from men's approaches.

Leadership and Leadership Development

Women in International Development (WID). This program area provides an important venue for the exchange of research and experience relating to women and international development. It promotes the role of women leaders in global development and sponsors scholarly research to inform both policy discussion and current academic thought. This program area has three main areas of focus: the WID Student Group, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and Banking on Russian Women. The WID Student Group fosters the study of the specific impact of economic and social development upon the work and livelihood of women. WIEGO is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving statistics, research programs, and policies in support of women in the informal sector of the economy. Banking on Russian Women, spearheaded by Russian economist Irina Ignatieva, is researching and designing an institution that will provide small loans to Russian women to start and expand their own businesses without demanding collateral.

Politics

Women Transforming Policy: Gender and International Relations. Does increasing the role of women in the foreign policy process affect public policy outcomes? How do men's and women's global political roles compare? What are the challenges and opportunities faced by women working in U.S. foreign policy? The goal of this program is to encourage a deeper joining of scholars and practitioners for the future in US foreign policy. A conference held in May 2000 focused on identifying successful models for bridging "thinkers and doers," analyzing action that extends beyond critique. The conference format was built around three major themes: war and peace, human rights and economic policy. In addition, WAPPP will continue to host select special individuals and groups, such as the 30 Foreign Service nationals (local employees at U.S. embassies worldwide) at the Kennedy School in a joint program with the United States Information Agency (USIA) in the fall of 2000.

Religion and Spirituality

Women, Religion, and Public Policy. This program area engages students, scholars, and activists in an examination of the intersection between women, religious institutions and traditions, and critical contemporary public policies. Critical engagement with these issues stems from the fact that many activists and policy makers on both the left and right describe their work as rooted in religious beliefs or experiences. The program operates under a broad definition of "public policy," reaching beyond actions of the state to include activities as diverse as charitable work, election-related educational campaigns, lobbying, press and electronic media activities, and other means of shaping civic values that underlie government policy decisions.

Women and Public Policy Program Working Paper Series
Series A

Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities, Jeffrey R. Brown (2000).

Peace with Justice, Peace with Care Palestinian and Israeli Women Negotiate Peacemaking Models, Dafna Vard Hochman, (2000).

Partisanship and the Impact of Candidate Gender in Congressional Elections: Results of an Experiment, David C. King (1999).

"Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent 'Yes,'" Jane Mansbridge (1999).

"'You're Too Independent!': Gender, Race and Class in the Production of Plural Feminisms," Jane Mansbridge (1998).

Breaking the Barriers: Positive Discrimination Policies for Women, Pippa Norris (2000).

The Gender Gap: Old Challenges, New Approaches,Pippa Norris (2000).

Gender and Contemporary British Politics, Pippa Norris (2000).

The Dynamics of the Framing Process: From Reagan's Gender Gap to Clinton's Soccer Moms, Pippa Norris (1997).

The Speeching of Sexual Harassment, Frederick Schauer (2000).

Women and Public Policy Program Working Paper Series
Series AA

Peace with Justice, Peace with Care: Palestinian and Israeli Women Negotiate Peacemaking Models, Dafna Vard Hochman (2000).

'Let's Not Change the Subject!' Deliberations on Abortion: on the Web, in the House, and in Abortion Dialogue Groups, Lamelle Rawlins (1999).

Gender and Conflict Resolution and Negotiation: What the Literature Tells Us, Bianca Cody Murphy and Ira Parghi (1999).

Papers About Women at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Series AA

Women and Leadership at the Kennedy School: A Survey, Tara Sharafudeen, Mason Fellow (2000).

Papers Related to Women and Internet Speech

By Jean Camp: Women, Children, Animals and the Like: Protecting an Unwilling Electronic Populace, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, March 28-31, 1995; Burlingame, CA; pp. 120-139. Co-authored by Donna Riley.

By Jean Camp: Bedrooms, Barrooms & Boardrooms on the Internet. Also co-authored by Donna Riley (1996).

Research Papers:

Greig, Fiona, and Iris Bohnet. 2009."Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum."

Research Fellowhip Program:

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