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Stanford Professor Lisa Blaydes: 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.
Category:ResearchReads:241Uploaded:06 / 29 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionStanford Professor Cecilia Ridgeway: 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.
Category:Internet & TechnologyReads:225Uploaded:06 / 29 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionShadow Mothers: Why the first shift still matters
Sociologist Cameron Macdonald explores the division of childrearing labor during daytime “business hours” and offers a vivid and compelling portrait of the complex ways in which gender, race, and class coalesce around mothering and employment. Intense ideals of mothering pressure working moms in their relationships with care-providers, so that she manages the care-provider as if she were an extension of the mother herself – a shadow mother that fades into invisibility when she is not needed and provides no threat to her employer’s identity as the child’s primary caregiver. Professor Macdonald spoke about at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.
Category:ResearchReads:129Uploaded:06 / 29 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionThe New F Word (Feminism) and Beyond: Gender, Race, and other Classroom Unspeakables - Stanford Profesor Michele Elam
Stanford English professor, Michele Elam, noticed very few of her students felt comfortable using the word feminism, and still fewer identified themselves as feminists. In her talk, “The New F Word (Feminism) and Beyond: Gender, Race, and other Classroom Unspeakables,” Elam argues for moving these topics into “teachables” and shows how race and gender function as critical intellectual tools for social and literary analysis.
Category:ResearchReads:242Uploaded:04 / 22 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionTaboos Explores the Implications of Modern Science on Reproduction
“A play is never finished,” stated scientist-turned-playwright Carl Djerassi in the wake of Stanford’s staging of his play Taboos, directed by Rush Rehm. With this statement, Djerassi simultaneously highlights a central theme of Taboos and a unique characteristic of art that explains his marriage of science and drama: choice.
Category:Art & DesignReads:132Uploaded:04 / 22 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionWorkplace Innovation, Male Caregivers, and the Gender Revolution
For the past twenty years, scholars have referred to a “stall” in the movement toward gender equality. The choice of the word “stall” suggests that the gender revolution has not reached its final destination and that sooner or later it will start moving again. Indeed, perhaps the stalled revolution is already on the move. Stanford Professor Myra Strober offers signs of hope.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:148Uploaded:04 / 22 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionTraveling Blind by Stanford Professor Susan Krieger: book review
Susan Krieger is a sociologist who has taught in the Feminist Studies Program at Stanford since 1987. In her new book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, Krieger uses her personal experience to illuminate the larger topic of vision. For Krieger, “vision” means much more than its literal translation, “eyesight.” As she explains, even before her diagnosis, “vision as a subject was always really…about knowledge.” Vision as it relates to personal identity has long served as the touchstone of Krieger’s sociological work. In an early study, she championed an innovative type of sociology and feminist ethnography in which, rather than a contaminant, the self serves as a rich source of knowledge.
Category:BookReads:219Uploaded:03 / 07 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionPundit Katha Pollitt: Feminism, not dead again
Katha Pollitt, the award-winning writer for The Nation, is one of the most popular and widely read feminist pundits in the country. Pollitt will speak at Stanford on February 23, 2011 in a talk titled, “What Do You Mean I’m Not Equal Yet? Women in the 21st Century.” Her talk will touch upon a variety of issues from the status of women to the continuing importance of feminism to women of all ages.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:263Uploaded:02 / 23 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionStanford Professor Estelle Freedman: Reflections on teaching. Insights into feminism.
In 1980, four years after she arrived on campus as an assistant professor, Estelle B. Freedman co-founded Stanford’s Program in Feminist Studies. At the “Beyond the Stalled Revolution” a panel event, Freedman reflected on her years as a professor, particularly her experience teaching, “Introduction to Feminist Studies.” By examining the issues that have engaged her students over the decades, Freedman traced the history of the feminist movement and made recommendations for the future.
Category:HistoryReads:253Uploaded:02 / 23 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionNegative+Math+Stereotypes=Too few women featuring Stanford professor Shelley Correll
Women earned only 18% of all Computer Science degrees and made up less than 25% of the workers in engineering- and computer-related fields in 2009. These statistics stand in stark contrast to the gains they have achieved in law, medicine, and other areas of the workforce. While this dearth of women in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields is often attributed to lack of innate ability or desire on the part of women, the director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford, sociology professor Shelley Correll, sees this explanation as incomplete. And she offers a competing one: stereotypes.
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