June 2009
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Newest Research & Action Report Off the Presses
Special issue recognizes WCW's 35th Anniversary
 The Spring/Summer 2009 Research & Action Report is off the presses and in the mail to constituents across the country and around the globe. The issue includes a special Q&A interview with Susan McGee Bailey,
Ph.D., WCW executive director, on the Centers' 35 years of
policy-driving research and action. Also featured is a commentary on
the sexualization of children--So Sexy So Soon--by Jean Kilbourne, WCW senior scholar.
This anniversary kick-off issue includes a brief reflection by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis,
WCW director of International Human Rights Policy Programs, on ways the
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights informs the Centers' newest international work. Regular
features, including updates from various projects and programs,
complete the report.
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WCW Researcher's Work featured in special JAMA issue
Preventing depression in at-risk adolescents highlighted
The work of Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., senior research scientist and director of the Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives at WCW, and her colleagues working on a national, multi-site research study, are featured in a special issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Their article reports on work to date testing the effectiveness
and generalizability of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for
preventing depressive disorders in at-risk adolescents--specifically
those who have parents with depression. The research team included
investigators
in Boston, Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Portland, Oregon; 316
at-risk teens participated in the study. Findings show that the
adolescents who were involved in a particular prevention program had an
11 percent lower incidence of depression compared to
those who weren't. The article was featured in the June 3, 2009 issue (Vol. 301 No. 21) on Child and Adolescent Health.
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 Educational Disparities Policy Brief Released
New fact sheet addresses disparities in MA
Erika Kates, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, presented a summary of her policy brief, Overcoming Persistent Inequalities: Educational Disparities among Women in Massachusetts,
at the Massachusetts State House on May 26. State Senator Pat Jehlen
and State Representative Alice Wolf, co-chairs of the Massachusetts
Caucus of Women Legislators, sponsored the release. The policy brief is
available online.
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NYC Luncheon--SAVE THE DATE: November 10, 2009
The
second annual WCW New York City Luncheon will feature a dynamic panel
of speakers to address sexual violence in relationships among
adolescents and young adults. The lunch will be held Tuesday, November
10th at the Yale Club of New York. Further information will be posted
on the WCW website and in the eNews Update.
Video
recordings of last year's program, Post-Election: What's Next for Women
and the Media, featuring leading women journalists, can be viewed online. Questions? Email us.
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Preview Newest Issue of Women's Review of Books
 Peruse the table of contents and preview select articles from the newest issue of Women's Review of Books,
including a photography review, "Facing Peace: Families Surviving
Violence" by Carolyn M. Goldstein of photos by Lisa Kessler, and a
special poetry submission by Kate Daniels.
Also featured and available online are reviews of:
Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism, by Anne Enke; review by Ann Snitow;
The School on Heart's Content Road, by Carolyn Chute; review by Mary Zeiss Strange;
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement, by Mary J. Henold; review by Frances Kissling; and
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution, edited by Lois Brown; review by Andrea N. Williams.
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Thank you for reading eNews Update.
If you'd like more information about the Wellesley Centers for Women, I invite you to visit our website at www.wcwonline.org.
Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Wellesley Centers for Women
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