
Founded in 1991, the institute explores national and international leadership issues while advancing women’s leadership in education, research, politics, science, the arts and the workplace. IWL represents a consortium of eight units at Rutgers: Douglass Residential College, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the Center for American Women and Politics, the Institute for Research on Women, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, the Center for Women and Work, the Institute for Women and Art, and the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Dr. Bernstein is a graduate of Vassar College. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.


