All Entries in the "Women’s Studies" Category
U.S. Holds 23rd Place in Rankings of World Nations in Gender Equality
The United States is tied with 24 nations for the highest gender equality ranking in educational attainment. But the U.S. scores poorly in women’s health and political participation.
University of Illinois Acquires the Papers of Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
The collection includes 150 boxes of manuscripts, drafts, journals, letters, scrapbooks, and awards. Also among the archives are the meticulous notes of everything Brooks ate for last 20 years of her life.
University of Connecticut Acquires the Papers of Magdalena Gomez
“Magdalena Gomez can be considered the quintessential Renaissance woman: poet, playwright, performer, writer, and social activist.”
Boston University Offers New Certificate Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The new program provides an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students interested in this field. Graduate students in women’s literature will come together to study with graduate students in women’s history, women’s health, sexuality studies, and other fields.
Smith and Mount Holyoke to Hold Women in Public Service Project Institute
The women’s colleges in western Massachusetts have announced that they will hold a two-week institute next spring entitled “Reconstructing Societies in the Wake of Conflict: Transitional Justice and Economic Development.”
New Website for Women Created by Utah Valley University
The Utah Women’s and Leadership Project website provides information on associations and support groups for women and lists events that are of particular interest to women.
Women’s Organization at UMass Offering Three New Support Groups
The Center for Women & Community at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is offering three seminars this fall to support women members of the campus community. The sessions are available to women in the Five Colleges consortium in the Amherst area.
University of Texas Acquires the Archives of Julia Alvarez
The archives include manuscripts, journals, and correspondence. The manuscripts include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and unpublished works.
An Historical Photographic Archive of Women’s Sports at Duke University
The archives of the athletics department at Duke University has more than 28,000 photographic negatives from the 1928 to 1982. Researchers recently discovered a group of photographs showing Duke women playing baseball as early as 1934.
New University of Alabama Birmingham Exhibit Showcases Letters of Florence Nightingale
The letters, written between 1853 and 1893, cover a wide range of topics. They were donated to the university in 1958. The letters have been digitized and are available on iPads in an exhibit on the first floor of the university’s School of Nursing.
London School of Economics Debuts Its New Archive of Women’s History
The school says that the offering is “the oldest and most extensive collection of women’s history in Europe.” The collection, originally the property of the London Metropolitan University, includes tens of thousands of books and documents.
University of Texas Receives the Papers of Barbara Probst Solomon
The Henry Ransom Center, a humanities research library at the University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the papers of Barbara Probst Solomon, a journalist, author, and essayist.
New Book Explores the Role of Gender in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
A new book by Brenda Stevenson, a professor of history at UCLA, makes the argument that gender issues played a major role in leading up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of police offices in the Rodney King case.
City College Seminar Identifies Places of Significance in Women’s History
Students in Professor Marta Gutman’s seminar on gender and architecture at City College in New York have identified 14 sites that they believe are important to women’s history. The students are proposing that these sites be included in New York City’s Census of Places That Matter.
Pakistani Athletes Come to North Carolina to Learn How Sports Can Empower Women
Twelve women athletes from Pakistan recently completed a visit to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as part of the U.S. State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative.
Lightning Strikes and Ignites a Fire at the Women’s Resource Center at Swarthmore College
The third floor of the building, which sustained the brunt of the damage, contained the Women’s Resource Center library and its collection of feminist literature. The first and second floors suffered water and smoke damage.
Nonprofit Aims to Help Teen Mothers Complete College
Less than 2 percent of women who have a baby before the age of 18 go on to earn a college degree before they reach the age of 30. A new nonprofit aims to help teen mothers earn their college degrees.
George Washington University to Participate in New Lecture Series on Women’s History
George Washington University has entered into a partnership with the National Women’s History Museum to create a new lecture series to focus on women in American life. A series of four lectures will be held, two in the fall semester and two in the spring semester.
Twin Sisters Earn Doctorates at the University of Utah
The twins completed doctorates in communication will now devote their time to furthering the mission of their foundation Beauty Redefined which seeks to replace society’s idea of beauty with a more balanced approach to physical and mental wellness.
Unemployment and Smoking Are Factors in Higher Mortality Rates for Low-Educated Women
The research used data on 47,000 White women ages 45 to 84. Factors such as poverty status, obesity, marital status, and alcohol consumption were shown to have no impact on death rates of similarly aged women. But smoking and unemployment were associated with higher death rates.
New Graduate Degree Programs in Women’s Studies at Stony Brook University
The women’s and gender studies program at Stony Brook University in New York has announced the establishment of a master’s degree program and a Ph.D. program in the discipline.
Louisiana State University to Open New Women’s Center
Louisiana State University is opening its new Women’s Center in May 2. The new 5,000-square-foot facility will include classroom space and an expanded library.
University of Northern Iowa Reinstates Master’s Degree Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
In March 2012, the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls suspended all admissions to its master’s degree program in women and gender studies due to cuts in funding for academic programs on campus.
Syracuse University Women’s Choir Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary
The Syracuse Women’s Choir is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a special concert honoring its legacy by performing works that it has featured over the past century and a quarter.
New Film Showcases the Power of Education for Girls Around the World
The film Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls from nine countries and how education has changed their lives. The producers of the film are making it available for campus screenings at a reduced rate.
College Women Support Girlcott by Giving Up Makeup for a Month
Women participating in Girlcott agreed not to use any makeup and to donate the money they saved to organizations around the world that aid women and girls.
Magazine Names Its “Best Universities for Women”
On Professional Woman’s Magazine list, 20 of the 26 institutions selected also rank in the top 30 universities selected by U.S. News and World Report as the best national universities in the United States.
Stanford University Debuts New Online Leadership Curriculum for Women
The Voice & Influence curriculum currently contains five videos each lasting about 20 minutes on subjects such as overcoming stereotypes, gaining power and influence, team dynamics, and negotiating tactics.
AAUW Debuts New Logo and Redesigned Website
The American Association of University Women, founded in 1881, now has 150,000 members and supporters, 1,000 local chapters and 700 college and university partners.
Northwestern University Stages Exhibit From Its Patricia Neal Collection
The Northwestern University Library is currently staging an exhibit from the Patricia Neal collection, the largest archive ever donated to the university by a celebrity alumna.
Women’s Center at the University of Massachusetts Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
Formerly known as the Everywoman’s Center, the Center for Women and Community at UMass is one of the oldest continually operating women’s center’s at an American university.
New Lecture Series Honors Professor Anita Hill
Soapbox Inc. is launching the Anita Hill Annual Lecture on Gender Justice, a program that will travel to a different campus each year. The goal of the lecture series is to expand public discourse and debate on issues of gender justice.
Cleveland State University to Host Classes, Provide Support for Bad Girl Ventures
Bad Girl Ventures classes will now be held on the Cleveland State University campus. Faculty, business school students, and alumni will serve as mentors and coaches to the entrepreneurs in the BGV program.
Author Susie Bright Donates Archival Papers to Cornell University
The Human Sexuality Collection at the Cornell University Library is receiving the papers of the Bright collection which includes detailed documentation of the battle for sexual equality that has been waged for the past 35 years.
Mississippi University for Women Launches Doctoral Program in Nursing
The nursing doctoral program will include advanced study in diagnostic methods, radiology, pharmacology, and medically oriented anatomy and physiology.
