November 12, 2009 (34:35 min.)
Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Ph.D., will give examples of older women in mentoring roles and discuss the impact these relationships can have on both older and younger women.
November 19, 2009 (54:21 min).
Nan Stein, Ed.D. discussed some key areas for research and public policy on gender-based violence and sexual harassment, including how to return the focus in U.S. schools to sexual violence and a discourse of civil rights and Katja Gillander Gadin, Ph.D., from the Department of Health Sciences at Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden, discussed the normalization processes of violence and sexual harassment in schools from a Swedish perspective, analyzing and reflecting on why these problems still exist in Swedish schools.
April 1, 2010 (48:58 min.)
Alice Frye, M.P.H., Ph.D. presents results from a survey of published articles showing the variety of ways that socioeconomic status is currently constructed in adolescent research, discuss strengths and weaknesses of the current approaches, and suggest possible alternatives.
March 25, 2010 (57:04 min.)
Erika Kates, Ph.D. discusses her work in directing the Massachusetts Women in Prison Coalition, which she initiated July 2009.
Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D. discusses findings from a case study of an internship setting for urban teen girls in the Boston area called Teen Voices. In the study, Linda Charmaraman explored how working for an alternative teen magazine influenced adolescent girls’ identity development, including beliefs related to gender and family expectations, media stereotypes, and future success.
March 11, 2010 (59:16 min.)
Amy Banks, M.D. discusses how we change and grow by exploring the final common pathyway of change - the development of new neural pathways in our minds and bodies.
March 4, 2010 (58:02 min.)
Laura Pappano and Allison Tracy, Ph.D. discuss the results of their studies of ticket prices at 292 Division I institutions for the 2008-2009 season and the implications of disparities in ticket prices between men's and women's events.
October 21, 2010 (54:55 min.)
Middle school youth and their teachers are seldom the focus of research explaining the bridge between bullying and sexual violence.
October 14, 2010 (64:20 min.)
In this presentation, Jean Hardisty, Ph.D., will discuss the relationship between the provision of child care to welfare recipients and institutional racism, using Mississippi as a case study.
October 7, 2010 (50:30 min.)
In this presentation, Nidhiya Menon, Ph.D., will discuss a study of the “added worker effect,” examining how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil war affected women’s decisions to engage in employment.
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.
This clip from "In the Forefront at the Center," explores the work of Dr. Nancy Marshall on early child care and education.
Since 1979, the School-Age Child Care Project has grown to become the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
In 1979, Jim Levine and Michelle Seligson launched the School-Age Child Care Project, which has now grown into the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
In 1992, WCW collaborated with the American Association of University Women to publish How Schools Shortchange Girls.
In WCW's early days, Rosalind Barnett, Ph.D., and Grace Baruch, Ph.D., studied stress and the ways in which men and women are impacted by it.
Nan Stein, Ed.D., was the co-principal investigator and lead author of a Seventeen magazine (September 1992) survey on sexual harassment in schools, Secrets in Public: Sexual Harassment in Our Schools.
Susan McGee Bailey discusses the ways in which research impacts our lives.
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