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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.
For Women Leaders, Body Language Matters
Deborah Gruenfeld of the Stanford Graduate School of Business had some sobering news to share with a group of high-level women executives and entrepreneurs. “When it comes to leadership,” Gruenfeld told the group, “there are very few differences in what men and women actually do and how they behave. But there are major differences in perception. Men and women doing the same things are perceived and evaluated differently.”
Clayman Faculty Research Fellow named Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities
Current Clayman Faculty Fellow Shelley Fisher Fishkin was named the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities earlier this month. She is a professor of English and American Studies at Stanford University and plans to use her fellowship with the Clayman Institute to continue her studies of feminism and American literature.
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.
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