The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

  • Congratulations to Michaela Hinks, Jenna Shapiro and Kierstyn Smith, the winners of our Mission Feminista contest. In honor of International Women's Day 2015, we asked Stanford students to share their vision for change for a...
  • Jill Abramson, the first woman executive editor of The New York Times, was fired in 2014, despite garnering eight Pulitzer Prizes during her three-year editorship and, according to Stanford professor Ann Grimes, being “one of...
  • Is it possible to imagine the Clayman Institute without its Jing Lyman Lectures? Its tradition of collaborative books and publications? Its beloved Serra House? Not likely, but such might be the case if not for former Institute...
  • An angry woman stands on a platform and yells to the crowd surrounding her, “Why does any woman take less wages than a man for the same work? Only because we can’t get anything better...Do you really think we take low wages...

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Founded in 1974, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University creates knowledge and seeks to implement change to promote gender equality. Our current focus is Moving Beyond the Stalled Gender Revolution. We are bringing together an intellectually diverse group of scholars to provide new insights into the barriers to women's advancement and to propose novel and workable solutions to advancing gender equality.

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