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Sharing Our Stories: A Discussion With Student Parent Authors
February 3, 2022
This panel will feature three student parents who graduated from colleges across the country, became scholars, experts, and advocates, and went on to author books about their experiences to help today's parenting students, as well as tomorrow's.
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On our blog, Laura Pappano urges us to un-gender jobs and the workplace in light of the pandemic.
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Diverse Data Samples Drive Social Change
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Sounding the Alarm: Speaking Up Against Workplace Harassment, Discrimination, and Labor Abuse
November 2021
Wellesley College alumnae share their powerful stories of speaking out against labor abuse and their hopes for a more equitable workplace for women.
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Fighting Time to End Systemic Racism
November 1, 2021
Senior Scholar Amy Banks, MD, reflects on the role of systemic racism in a wrongful conviction that changed the lives of two families forever.
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Wellesley Centers for Women

is a research and action institute at Wellesley College that is focused on women and gender and driven by social change.

Our mission is to advance gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through high-quality research, theory, and action programs.

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Wellesley Centers for Women

Q&A With WCW Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Details: Published: 15 November 2006; Last Updated: 27 August 2014

The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) has three postdoctoral research positions sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In the summer of 2004 researchers were selected and matched with a mentor. During their two-year tenure at WCW, the fellows receive training in a variety of skills ranging from methodology to preparing a manuscript for publication and writing grant proposals. The program is designed to prepare the junior researchers to become senior scholars in the study of childhood and adolescence, with special emphasis on how race and ethnicity, gender, and social class interact with risk and resilience factors in human development. Fellows can collaborate with their mentors on externally funded research projects and can initiate independent research conducted under the guidance of their mentor. Sumru Erkut is working with Michelle Bragg, Linda Williams is teamed with Diane Purvin, and Nancy Marshall is partnered with Jasmine Waddell.