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Kristina García
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups
Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups
For low-income people and people of color, lack of access to safe abortions in the U.S. will have a range of health and financial ramifications, compounding factors like poverty and systemic racism.
‘Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970’: A film that’s newly timely
‘Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970’: A film that’s newly timely
Five decades ago, ahead of the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, political scientist Mary Summers worked on a documentary film. That film is gaining new viewers through a recently launched website.
Possessed: The Salem witch trials
Possessed: The Salem witch trials
This spring marks the 330th anniversary of the Salem witch trials, during which a total of 20 “afflicted girls” accused around 150 people, 19 of whom were executed. Historian Kathleen M. Brown discusses why this episode is still fascinating today.
Bridging Wikipedia’s gender gap, one article at a time
Bridging Wikipedia’s gender gap, one article at a time
Wikipedia has a major gender inequity problem. In a new study, Annenberg researchers evaluate how feminist interventions are closing the gap, and how they could improve.
The ‘music’ of one poet’s words, translated
The ‘music’ of one poet’s words, translated
With help from her daughter, scholar Huda Fakhreddine published an English version of 30 poems for children written by her father in Arabic, paying tribute to their endearing and enduring subject matter and to the musicality and richness of their sound.
Ten years later, examining the Occupy movement’s legacy
Ten years later, examining the Occupy movement’s legacy
For Jessa Lingel of the Annenberg School for Communication, a decade after Occupy Wall Street’s beginnings presented an opportunity for reflection, which she led this fall semester in a new course.
Gender and identity: A lecture on diversity
Gender and identity: A lecture on diversity
In the first in a series of diversity lectures offered through the Office of Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Programs, Melissa E. Sanchez of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke on “Addressing a More Complex and Encompassing Understanding of Identity.”
Conference celebrates worldwide impact of Penn women
Conference celebrates worldwide impact of Penn women
Momentum 2021: The Power of Penn Women online conference takes place Oct 1-3 with a who’s who lineup of speakers comprised of alumni and Penn community members.
A new name and a new director for the Alice Paul Center
A new name and a new director for the Alice Paul Center
Melissa E. Sanchez speaks about her research and her new position as director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, formerly the Alice Paul Center.
Filmmaker Claire Sliney heads to Paris with a Nat Geo Storytelling Fulbright
Filmmaker Claire Sliney heads to Paris with a Nat Geo Storytelling Fulbright
May graduate Claire Sliney is the first Penn undergrad to receive an Academy Award, and to receive a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship. She heads to Paris to shoot a documentary about how female immigrants in France are portrayed in film.
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Self Magazine
The Period Project: Period poverty and the fight for menstrual equity
Allison Whelan of the Law School and Leonard Davis Institute co-authored an article about the social consequences of unequal access to menstrual products and education and what some states are doing to remedy the problem.
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Vox.com
For women, remote work is a blessing and a curse
Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the effects of remote work on women’s work-life balance. “If women feel disproportionately responsible for the household activities and for parenting, working remotely makes life a whole lot more flexible,” he said.
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Los Angeles Times
What’s size got to do with it? Mocking a man’s manhood spurs a reverse #MeToo in South Korea
Jinsook Kim, a postdoc in the Annenberg School for Communication, spoke about the backlash against feminist activism in South Korea. “The younger generation suffers from frustration and economic precarity,” Kim said. “The problem is, these young Korean men, they ascribe their sense of victimhood or precarity not to government or policies but to women who they see as preventing them from receiving their due.”
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NPR
Pandemic could roll back advancements for women in STEMM
Eve Higginbotham of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed how the pandemic has affected the careers of women in STEMM, as well as what support institutions can offer.
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PRI
More transgender people are hiding their identity at work in the UK. Why?
Sophie Lewis of the School of Arts & Sciences weighed in on how the current political climate has made life more challenging for transgender people. “The combination of nativist, reactionary politics around Brexit and Trump along with the conditions of a pandemic would, I think, contribute to people being more afraid to be out as trans,” she said.
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Inside Higher Ed
Where caregiving and gender intersect
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Eve Higginbotham spoke about how the pandemic has affected women caregivers working in academia. The results of a survey on the matter emphasize “the need for institutional acknowledgment and response to these stressors—and the unintended consequences that some policies have on the academic vitality of faculty that may differ between men and women,” she said.
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