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Longevity can improve work-life balance for women
Laura Carstensen, Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, discusses the oft-ignored gendered implications of increased longevity and the opportunities it presents. By broadening their focus to include issues affecting older women, feminists can both increase their social and political influence and effect widespread social change for women and men.
Raising more hell and fewer dahlias
For the past twenty years, scholars have referred to a “stall” in the movement toward gender equality. Across a myriad of fields, measures of equality have remained relatively constant since the mid-1990s. Four renowned gender researchers quantified the enormous gains made in the thirty-five years since the Clayman Institute’s founding, offered recommendations for what needs to be done today, and issued predictions for what the next thirty-five years will bring.
Team to research ways to aid women medical faculty with help of NIH grant
Hannah Valantine, MD, the senior associate dean for diversity and leadership at the Stanford University School of Medicine and former Clayman Faculty Research Fellow, was recently awarded a $2 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant is one of six to be awarded by the NIH and funds researchers searching for new approaches to creating a more diverse workforce in the sciences.
Londa Schiebinger keynotes UN conference on gender, science and technology
Londa Schiebinger presented the keynote address at the United Nations conference on Gender, Science, and Technology September 28 through October 1, 2010 in Paris, France. The meeting, co-sponsored by UNESCO, convened a meeting of experts to set the conceptual framework for addressing the pressing issue of increasing women’s access to and decision-making power in science and technology.
Shelley J. Correll to lead Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Shelley J. Correll, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been appointed as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Correll brings research expertise, leadership experience, and passion for change to the Institute.
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