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  • by Pam Miracle on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 6:07pm
    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...
  • by Marion Robertson on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 6:06pm
    Is it possible to imagine the Clayman Institute without its Jing Lyman Lectures? Its tradition of collaborative books and...
  • by Adrienne Rose Johnson on Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 7:14pm
    “Methinks I see them stand shivering on the brink of the dreadful gulf,” John “Damnation” Murray preached in 1788, describing sinners with “their hearts throbbing—their eyeballs rolling—their teeth...
  • by Alison Dahl Crossley on Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 4:33pm
    Man up. Grow a pair. What are you, a sissy? These phrases are used casually in everyday conversation. But why are these expressions so common? And what are their consequences?“...
  • by Pam Miracle on Monday, March 30, 2015 - 4:19pm
    The phrase “what women want” calls to mind fluffy Hollywood movies and a recent segment of the popular TV quiz show, “Jeopardy,” which perpetuated the idea that “what women want” is help with the...
  • by Adrienne Rose Johnson on Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 12:06am

    A woman, immobilized, half-buried in a mound of earth, in the first act, then up to her neck in the second. Then only her mouth moves, and her eyes widen and narrow, blinking, fluttering...

  • by Gender News staff on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 11:07am
    Where race and gender meet, there emerges challenge, triumph, leadership, and change. While often overlooked, black women continue to be at the forefront of progress and social innovation, from their...
  • by Alison Dahl Crossley on Friday, December 5, 2014 - 8:33pm
    An engaging live performance can provoke thoughts we would not otherwise have; it may make us feel connected to others — or isolated— or invite us to rethink our past experiences.
  • by Lelia Glass on Friday, December 5, 2014 - 10:40am
    At the Clayman Institute’s Autumn Artists’ Salon lecture on October 20th, poet and Stanford...
  • by Adrienne Rose Johnson on Monday, October 20, 2014 - 3:35pm
    “History is made by those who show up,” Christie Herring said during her appearance last spring for the Stanford screening of her documentary film...

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