Sumru Erkut

Sumru Erkut

Senior Scholar

  • Ph.D., Harvard University
  • serkut@wellesley[dot]edu

Research interests include women’s leadership, racial/cultural norms and identity in youth and families, and adolescent development.

Sumru Erkut, Ph.D., was a senior scholar and former senior research scientist and associate director at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) whose research had focused on racial/ethnic diversity and gender equity in leadership and development across the life course. She was part of a team that found that three or more women on a corporate board of directors constitute a critical mass, which improves the functioning of corporate boards, and she had analyzed data from interviews with diverse women leaders, which resulted in Inside Women’s Power: Learning from Leaders. Erkut directed the postdoctoral research training program on variations in child and adolescent development funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Development.

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