Tag: Women
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Nobel winner sees an unfinished quiet revolution
Claudia Goldin says women have new professional power, but it’s often undercut by unequal ‘hidden work’
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‘Glass ceiling’ is problem, but so are ‘broken rungs’
New report examines myths hampering advancement of women in workplace, actual barriers, and possible solutions
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Hearth and home — in Stone Age
Motivating Professor Amy Elizabeth Clark’s interest is what she calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history.
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‘Those inequalities are inequalities that occur within households’
The Henry Lee Professor was honored for her research on women in the workplace
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Imani Perry, Jason Buenrostro land MacArthur ‘genius grants’
One for interdisciplinary interpretations on history, culture of Black America, the other for pathbreaking technologies to advance study of gene expression.
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Imani Perry’s arrival marks homecoming, expansion
Accomplished scholar, National Book Award winner will blend teaching in African American studies, women and gender studies.
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DNA shows poorly understood empire was multiethnic with strong female leadership
Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the Xiongnu people, the world’s first nomadic empire.
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Women mostly stayed in workforce as pandemic unfolded, defying forecasts
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin says education was a larger factor than gender in labor disruptions.
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Tenure-Track Review Committee releases recommendations
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Tenure-Track Review Committee released its 106-page review on the School’s tenure-track system, providing critical recommendations to Edgerly Family Dean Claudine Gay.
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Why being a working mom is still so tough
In a new book, “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity,” Professor Claudia Goldin traces five generational groups of college-educated women across 120 years.
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Guess who’s coming to dinner
Marya T. Mtshali spoke to the Gazette about the long history of American fears of racial mixing, the importance of decentering whiteness in discussions of race and relationships, and why we should value love as a scholarly subject.
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American voters don’t hate ambitious women, after all
Upending conventional wisdom, new political science research finds that voters aren’t automatically put off by ambitious women candidates.
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Creating community in the virtual classroom
As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.
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Unhidden figures
LaNell Williams wants to encourage more women of color to pursue doctorate degrees in fields such as physics. To help make that happen, she founded the Women+ of Color Project, which last week hosted a three-day workshop that invited 20 African American, Latinx, and Native American women interested in pursuing a career in a STEM…
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How workplace harassment programs fail
Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?
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Bringing ‘Coco’ to campus
Harvard’s Office for the Arts will welcome producer Darla Anderson and cultural consultant Marcela Davison Aviles for a conversation about their work on the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Coco.”
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Uncovering the economics of foot-binding
A recent study is suggesting that the real underpinnings of foot-binding may have been economic.
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Women rising, because they have to
Harvard Kennedy School’s Swanee Hunt discussed the lessons learned from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide — key among them, empowering women — in advance of “Women Rising, Here and Abroad,” her talk as the Lowell lecturer at Harvard Extension School.
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Greater health benefit from exercise than previously reported
A new study finds that physical activity has an even larger health benefit than thought in reducing the risk of death in women.
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Progress in diversifying faculty
At Harvard, the percentages of women and minorities on the faculty have reached new highs, study says.
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Trumpeting women in jazz
Some inroads finally may be happening for women in jazz, which traditionally has been a man’s musical world.
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Strengthening ties among women in physics
The Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics included lab tours, lectures, and practical discussion on research, grad school applications, how to deal with discrimination and implicit bias, and finding mentors.
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Greenery plays key role in keeping women healthy, happy
The amount of vegetation surrounding the homes of women in the United States plays an important role in their mortality rate, according to a new Harvard study.
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Blended voices, each with a personal charge
Five poets are celebrated in “‘A Language to Hear Myself’: Feminist Poets Speak,” a Schlesinger Library exhibit running from Feb. 29 to June 17, with an accompanying performance March 1.
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Women, overshadowed
New research finds that female economists are not being fully credited for their contributions when they co-author papers with men, which may explain the significant tenure disparity between men and women in the field.
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Entrepreneurial women
It’s harder for entrepreneurial women to raise startup capital, but speakers on a Harvard Business School panel say there are paths through the maze.
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Vivid reminders of war
An exhibition by an Iranian artist recalls the heavy human cost of the long and brutal Iran-Iraq War.
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A quantum leap for women
Step by step, a growing Harvard women’s student group is helping to change the male-dominated culture of computer science by creating fresh realities.