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on Monday, March 26, 2012 - 9:54pm
Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, and Engineering has attracted over 12,000 visitors from 137 countries since its launch November 2011. The project, a new framework for gender-... -
on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 8:00am
For Gloria Steinem, learning and laughter are intrinsically linked. Einstein, she told audiences at her Jan. 26 talk at Stanford... -
on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 10:51am
Dramatic changes to welfare law in Israel over the past decade have resulted in a conflict between poor mothers and the state over the value of caretaking and conceptions of citizenship. In the...
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on Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:54am
This month marks the anniversary of a little-known event. In October 1906, Mary Kelly, a working-class refugee of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire, unlawfully occupied a one-room...
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on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 2:36pm
"With economic models straining in every corner of the world, none of us can afford to perpetuate the barriers facing women in the workforce," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... -
on Monday, October 3, 2011 - 1:26pm
When Eman al-Obeidy burst into the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, desperately relating her tale of gang rape at the hands of Libyan... -
on Monday, September 19, 2011 - 7:35am
Filmmaker Abigail E Disney’s latest project began with a simple question, “What if you looked at war as though women mattered?” Disney’s answer to that question is Women, War & Peace, a... -
on Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 2:30am
In 2004, the U.S. State Department designated the more than 80,000 Filipinas who worked as hostesses in Japan’s legendary nightlife industry as “trafficked persons,” believing these women to be...
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on Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:23am
In late nineteenth century South Africa, accusations of sexual violence made by white women against black men became a tool for strengthening racial segregation policies.Over the last decade,... -
on Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 4:00am
A young girl by the sea in Alexandria waves an Egyptian flag during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Source: Flickr - Moe- - IMG 0016.jpgRevolution has shaken the Middle East, sending unrest...
