Gender
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.
Challenge the status quo and be a change agent for gender equity. Learn more here!
A Netflix Original: Hillary Clinton and Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss the cultural norms at the center of the worldwide gender pay gap, including the "motherhood penalty."
At The New York Times’s New Rules Summit, leaders across business, politics and culture gathered to explore some of the challenges faced by women in the workplace and how to bring about change.
This link takes you to several stories from the conference.
This folder contains two files related to the dress code policy in Washington, DC schools that adversely affect women, particularly women of color. It's an interesting read. The National Women’s Law Center highlighted some of these recent shifts and rated D.C. public and charter high schools based on the strictness of their dress code policies. As reported by The Washington Post.
A conversation with Julie Roginsky, one of the principals of Lift Our Voices.
Lisa Wardell walked into a meeting with 14 white, male bankers — and she ran the room
TED Fellow Nighat Dad studies online harassment, especially as it relates to patriarchal cultures like the one in her small village in Pakistan. She tells the story of how she set up Pakistan's first cyber harassment helpline, offering support to women who face serious threats online. "Safe access to the internet is access to knowledge, and knowledge is freedom," she says. "When I fight for a woman's digital rights, I am fighting for equality."
"Gender and climate are inextricably linked"
If we really want to address climate change, we need to make gender equity a reality, says writer and environmentalist Katharine Wilkinson. As part of Project Drawdown, Wilkinson has helped scour humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions: obvious things like renewable energy and sustainable diets and not so obvious ones, like the education and empowerment of women. In this informative, bold talk, she shares three key ways that equity for women and girls can help stop global warming.
Women have made enormous progress over the last century -- challenging the status quo, busting old taboos and changing business from the inside out. But when it comes to political representation, there's still a long way to go, says activist Cecile Richards. In this visionary talk, Richards calls for a global political revolution for women's equality and offers her ideas for how we can build it.
Project, begun in 1986 and concluded in 1994, features interviews with 20th century pionerring women journalists. I have used these in student assignments in the Women, Minorities and the Media and for two conference presentations, done with students in 2014 and 2016.
A 2017 Pew Research Center survey found that Americans believe society places a higher premium on masculinity than on femininity
A 2018 Pew Research Center study found that men are overrepresented in online image search results across a majority of jobs examined, and women appeared lower than men in such search results for many jobs.
This educational organization has several facets, offering events, research and mentorship. As assistant director of St. Bonaventure's Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program, I plan to offer the JMC/WS 482 [Women Minorities and the Media] course, like I did last summer. If an event coincides with our six-week summer stay, I will look into taking my students.