Laura PappanoWriter-in-ResidenceLaura Pappano is the first writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW). An experienced journalist, Pappano has been widely published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Working Mother, and The Harvard Education Letter, among other publications. She is author of The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Lonely, published by Rutgers University Press (2001). While at WCW, Pappano is working on a book proposal that will combine her more than 20 years writing about education with her interest in women’s issues. Her new book, co-authored with Eileen McDonagh, Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports, was released in fall 2007 by Oxford University Press. Listen to Laura's lunchtime seminar presentation, Squeeze Play: Why Title IX Is Not Enough (58:30 min.) that she presented with Eileen McDonagh on November 8, 2007.
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- News & opinion:
- The Endless School Year, 07/27/08
- Playing with the Boys, 05/30/08
- Beating Men At Their Own Games, 05/22/08
- The Power of Family Conversation, 05/16/08
- Women and men in sports: Separate is not equal, 01/31/08
- Girl Sports: Playing with the Boys by Eileen McDonough and Laura Pappano, 01/10/08
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