Lunchtime Seminar Series Archive

The Lunchtime Seminar Series at the Wellesley Centers for Women offers residents and visitors to the Greater Boston area the opportunity to hear, in person, about work by WCW researchers and program staff. Recordings of some past lunchtime seminars are available as MP3 files via links below. Other recordings from presentations over the past 12 months are currently being converted to digital files and will be uploaded to this website. Please visit us again in March 2008 to hear more!

*Please note that data and background information cited in these presentations were current for the date of the presentation but should not necessarily be considered the most current research on the related issues today.

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• Laura Pappano and Eileen McDonagh, Ph.D.; Squeeze Play: Why Title IX Is Not Enough (October 11, 2007) 58:30 min.

Title IX was passed 35 years ago, and many today view it as having “solved” the problem of gender inequality in sports. However, while Title IX was critical to opening athletic doors to girls and women, it opened sex-segregated doors. Title IX never demanded equality, and has ironically served to keep female athletes in second-class status. Laura Pappano, writer-in-residence with the Wellesley Centers for Women, and her colleague Eileen McDonagh, will talk about the effects of this flawed design and how women today are working toward equality in sports.

 

• Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D.; Sibling Relationships among Offspring of Depressed Parents (April 19, 2007) 55:49 min.

  Sibling relationship quality has been connected to psychosocial and mental health outcomes in youth, including internalizing and externalizing difficulties, substance abuse, and poor peer relationships. Yet to date, no studies have examined sibling relationships in families with a depressed parent. Given that maladaptive family interactions characterize families with depressed parents and are associated with poor sibling relationships, which are associated with poorer youth outcomes, it follows that sibling relationships in families with a depressed parent also may be impaired. In this presentation, Tracy Gladstone, senior research scientist and director of the Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women, discussed data pertaining to sibling relationship quality, parenting, and psychopathology in the adolescent offspring of depressed parents.

   

• Jean Hardisty, Ph.D.; Looking Back to Move Forward (March 29, 2007) 45:30 min.

While the Right has benefited from a shared vision that unites its sectors and informs its messages, the progressive movement lacks such a unifying vision. The speaker believes that there is a visionary treasure in the writings of past theorists, who have laid out beliefs behind a society grounded in social justice. She asserts that we need to read these past thinkers and draw from them the material needed today to unify and rebuild the progressive movement.

 

• Sumru Erkut, Ph.D.; How Women Directors Influence Corporate Governance: The Critical Mass Study (November 16, 2006) 53:59 min.

Sumru Erkut, senior research scientist and associate director at the Wellesley Centers for Women, presented findings from the Critical Mass Study. This project was an examination of both the impact of the presence of women on Fortune 1000 boards of directors as well as the number of women directors that creates a critical mass for that impact. This was the first research study that tried to answer the question of whether it makes a difference how many women serve on a board.

 

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