Gender and Justice

Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights
In Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, and India

international work  This project is based on the model of past work dealing with the intersections of women's, and children's, and disability rights in Bangladesh and Nepal. It is a multiphased project to be actualized in Bangladesh (January 2009), Nepal (January 2009), Cambodia (May 2009), and India (May 2009).


Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
Gender and Justice

This statewide project combines human rights fact-finding, qualitative research, advocacy, and community organizing to document and address the injustices inflicted on battered mothers and their children during family court child custody and visitation litigation.


Creating a Family Court Advocacy Training Curriculum for Battered Minority and Immigrant Women
Empowering Battered Immigrant Women

Through this project we will develop and pilot-test a new family court advocacy training curriculum for service providers who work with battered immigrant and minority women.  This project is intended to directly affect the lives of battered immigrant women by empowering them with substantive, strategic knowledge.


Decriminalizing Consensual Teen Sex
Law and Consensual Teen Sex

This project explored the ways in which states attempt to regulate consensual adolescent sexual behavior through criminal law.


Effects of Postsecondary Education on Low-income Women
Education-Income Effects

A project to track economic effects of education.


Gender & the Law in China Expert Group Consultation
Chinese Expert Group on Gender & Law

international work  The project brings together China’s leading scholars on gender and the law to build common cause on women’s rights in China.


Higher Education for Low-Income Women: Advocacy at State and National Levels
Higher ed and women's economic status

This action project involves mobilization of scholars and policymakers to address economic status and women's educational and professional development.


Improving the Court Approach to Domestic Violence Cases in the Massachusetts Family Courts
Massachusetts Domestic Violence Data Collection

This project will provide systematic data on court cases involving domestic violence in Massachusetts.


Tracking Economic Inequities among Women
Massachusetts women's economic status

This project tracks data and policies affecting women's economic status in Massachusetts.


What Do Abused Women of Color and Immigrant Women Experience during Family Court Proceedings?
Interviewing Battered Women of Color

Battered women of color often report that they do not receive fair treatment in family courts and that the courts’ insufficiencies can lead to devastating consequences for them and for their children.


Women in Prison and Family Connection
Incarcerated Women and Their Families

This project involves coordinating a coalition to identify best practices for serving women in Massachusetts' prisons.


Women's Rights Network
Gender and Justice

This inactive project examined women's rights and continued indirectly through the Gender and Justice Project and the Battered Mother's Testimony Project.