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Tag: Equality
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Nation & World
Recruiting everyday superheroes for ‘cage match with agents of intolerance’
Though America could use a superhero, there’re none to be found, actor Tom Hanks told Harvard’s Class of 2023 on Thursday, instead, there’s a new generation to join the battle of truth and equality.
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Men on a mission
The Women’s Student Association at HBS finds some effective new ambassadors to negotiate gender issues on campus — men.
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Nation & World
Progress, but no letup
In the LGBT community, “equal rights does not necessarily mean equal lives,” Tim McCarthy, an activist and Harvard lecturer, told a Harvard Kennedy School audience on July 11. With that in mind, he and a group of researchers at the Face Value project are aiming to combat real-world stigma, not just legal discrimination.
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Nation & World
Helping women help themselves
Victoria Budson always wanted to aid the cause of gender equality. As executive director of the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, she helps to develop leaders, too.
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Nation & World
Untold war stories
Women’s voices have long been absent from stories of war — and from the process of peacemaking. A group of women scholars and filmmakers gathered at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Oct. 4 to explore those untold stories in conjunction with the new PBS series “Women, War, and Peace.”
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Nation & World
Honoring a tireless advocate
Scholars and professionals involved with the labor movement, workplace law, and social policy gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to honor the life of alumna Clara Schiffer on behalf of working women, and to explore the legacy and prospects of working women.
