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Tag: Women
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Nation & World
Power suits
Harvard President Drew Faust convened a panel of top female leaders in media, business, and government to talk about the evolving role of women, and the challenges as well as opportunities facing women today.
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Campus & Community
Women who lead
Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion on Monday at Sanders Theatre to consider the changing roles of women.
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Campus & Community
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
Lessons in an unappealing law
Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman ran a Socratic master class to dig beneath the 1927 Supreme Court decision upholding forced sterilization of “mental defectives.”
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Nation & World
Women on a mission
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, where memories of war are still fresh, mothers and grandmothers are working at the grassroots to build a peaceful future for their country, a scholar who is highlighting their stories in an upcoming book said in a talk at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Arts & Culture
On closer inspection, not such a plain Jane
In her latest work, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” Jill Lepore, a professor of U.S. history at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, brings Benjamin Franklin’s sister out of history’s fog and into the open.
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Arts & Culture
A woman’s endless work
Author Claire Messud discussed her latest novel during an appearance at Harvard as part of the Writers at Work series. “Midlife hits people at different times,” said Messud, a former Radcliffe Fellow. “That moment you realize life is finite, it has a horizon.”
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Nation & World
‘Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit’
This week, Harvard Business School celebrated 50 years of women in its M.B.A. program with a summit that drew hundreds of the School’s female graduates to campus. But as a new alumni survey demonstrates — and as speakers like “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged — women still have a long way to go to…
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Nation & World
More opportunities for women
Speaking in South Korea at the conclusion of a five-day visit to Asia, Harvard President Drew Faust urged greater educational opportunities for women.
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Campus & Community
In the Pink Zone
Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion was bedecked in a paler shade of crimson on Saturday for the Harvard-Yale women’s basketball game in honor of the Pink Zone, an event to raise awareness and support in the fight against breast cancer.
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Campus & Community
A break for exploration
For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator.
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Health
Worldwide, women’s inequality
A U.N. official said Thursday that the world has made progress in reducing poverty and in meeting some of its eight Millennium Development Goals, but that entrenched inequality of women will slow efforts to meet equality and maternal mortality targets by 2015.
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Campus & Community
‘Having it all’ at Harvard
After an Atlantic magazine cover story launched a national debate on how women balance career and family, a group of Harvard women is continuing the conversation, and is looking for new ideas on how to make the work-life juggling act a little less stressful.
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Nation & World
Feminism without perfection
Harvard Business School students gathered Tuesday evening to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first class of female M.B.A.s. But as Barnard College President Debora Spar reminded the group, women at the top of the ladder still face hurdles — including their impossible demands on themselves.
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Nation & World
Explaining the baby bust
Postindustrial countries from Japan to Italy are experiencing startling low birthrates, but the entry of women into the workforce isn’t to blame, according to Sociology Professor Mary Brinton, whose research looks at more subtle factors, including attitudes toward men’s and women’s roles in the workplace and the home.
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Arts & Culture
Hard-earned gains for women at Harvard
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, professor emerita of history and American studies at Smith College, examined the shifting gender landscape at Harvard during a talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Campus & Community
Remembering the co-ed experiment
A search sheds light on the controversial turning point 40 years ago when men and women first shared housing in Pforzheimer and Winthrop.
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Nation & World
The revolution continues
In a conversation that ranged from the recent parliamentary elections to the ongoing sexual abuse of women to a new wave of journalists, panelists at the Feb. 2 Harvard Kennedy School Forum on Egypt expressed both fear and hope for a country still in the midst of a revolution.
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Nation & World
Women as peacemakers
Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Fight fiercely, Harvard
Boxing has longstanding roots at the University. A required sport in the halcyon days of Theodore Roosevelt, today the Harvard Boxing Club is keeping tradition alive, but with a modern twist — its inclusion of women.
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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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Health
Debunking a myth
Studying dead women’s cut-up bodies was not what Katharine Park originally set out to do. But a trip to Florence opened a new chapter in the scholar’s life.
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Nation & World
The road to Chile, Brazil
On her South American trip, Harvard President Drew Faust meets with government and academic leaders, reconnects with Harvard alumni, and views the tangible benefits of the University’s research.
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Campus & Community
If it’s winter, it must be the Beanpot
In the Beanpot hockey tournament, the Harvard men rallied to win the consolation game, 5-4, while the women lost, 3-1, in the championship.
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Campus & Community
Learning to listen
About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.
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Arts & Culture
Troubled youth
Linda Schlossberg’s debut novel, “Life in Miniature,” depicts a mother’s mental illness and a daughter’s coming of age.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Currier House
Unlike the other undergraduate residences at Harvard, Currier House on the Radcliffe Quadrangle is named solely for a woman.
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Nation & World
Congo: Rape as Strategy
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Campus & Community
Aid groups that make a difference
The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.
