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Clayman Institute announces 2011-12 postdoctoral fellows

The Clayman Institute is pleased to announce our two Postdoctoral Research Fellows for 2011-12: Lauren Aguilar and Erin Cech. This was a banner year for interest in the Clayman Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, drawing applications from gender scholars at top universities both nationally and internationally. The Clayman Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellows join our efforts to create new gender thinking to move Beyond the Stalled Gender Revolution. The fellows contribute to our work by translating gender research for a broader audience and participating to our ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations to advance gender equality

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How Does Gender Inequality Persist?

Gender inequality continues to exist in advanced industrial societies, such as the US, despite a plethora of changes that work against gender discrimination. Stanford professor Cecilia Ridgeway takes this conundrum one step further. She not only explains why gender inequality continues in the modern world, she also asks if we can predict which type of Silicon Valley start-up would face the greatest persistence of gender inequality in comparison to traditional, hierarchical firms.

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Women, Marriage, and Job Opportunity in the Muslim World

In post-revolution Egypt, western onlookers pose the burning question of what rights the new governments will accord to women. Will women be included in a new democracy, or will there be a revival of strict fundamentalist law? According to Stanford researcher and professor of political science, Lisa Blaydes, the question of women’s rights is not so straight-forward as simply introducing western-style reforms.

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The Clayman Institute announces 2011 Lozoff and Yalom prize winners

The Clayman Institute is pleased to announce the winners of two awards for Stanford graduate students. Scott Spillman, a graduate student in the History Department, is the 2011 winner of the Marjorie Lozoff Graduate Essay Prize for his article, “Institutional Limits: Christine Ladd-Franklin, Fellowships, and American Women’s Academic Careers, 1880-1920.” Yvon Wang won this year’s Marilyn Yalom Research Fund award to support research for her dissertation, “Protecting the Hearts of the People: Sex, Media, and State in China, 1875-1927.”

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Perception is key to retaining women in academic medicine

A team of Stanford University Medical Center researchers found that while male and female faculty members are leaving Stanford in comparable numbers based on the gender mix of the faculty, women are giving notice sooner than their male peers. But what was surprising was that the majority were moving to comparable institutions—not relocating to community clinics or pure research enterprises.

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