Recently added articles from On Campus with Women:

Campus women lead.

Jan 01, 2008; Brown, Gladys ... International Alliance Building: The Importance of Listening to Global Peers By Gladys Brown, interim director of Faculty and Staff Affirmative Action at the University of California--Riverside; with Marianne Kriszio, gender equity officer at Humboldt Universitaet in Berlin, Germany; ...

The National Council for Research on Women.(Data Cconnection)

Jan 01, 2008 ... In 2006, the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) released two crucial reports examining the status of women in the United States and throughout the world. Although these reports are nearly two years old as this issue of OCWW goes to press, they are critical enough to merit our ...

Gender watch with a global lens.(Director's Outlook)

Jan 01, 2008; Musil, Caryn McTighe ... Women's organizing globally is not an invention of the twenty-first century. Nor is the kind of radical transformation that can occur with a global consciousness. For quite some time now, women have exhibited the courageous leadership necessary to become empowered advocates in the service ...

Writing the next chapter in women's education: the compelling imperatives.(Featured Topics)

Jan 01, 2008; Lennon, Susan E. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Often quoted but seldom cited, French journalist Alphonse Karr once wrote, "The more things change, the more they remain the same." His perennially valid observation takes on new significance in the context of the lives of women and girls around the globe ....

Protecting women's rights at the border through advocacy and education.(Featured Topics)

Jan 01, 2008; Rabin, Nina ... The maxim "think globally, act locally" is particularly easy to practice at international borders, where local issues are inherently global and the effects of worldwide migration are apparent in acutely immediate ways. When I joined the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) ...

Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008 ... Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices, Ed. Sharon Harley (Rutgers University Press, 2007, $23.95 paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recognizing that women's labor operates within complex economic and social schemas, this anthology's authors ...

Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective, Pamela Paxton and Melanie M. Hughes (Pine Forge Press, 2007, $36.95 paperback) Authors Paxton and Hughes offer a solid elementary introduction to the current state of women's political leadership ...

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008 ... The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders, Kathy Davis (Duke University Press, 2007, $22.95 paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Locating the Our Bodies, Ourselves within the context of transnational feminism, Kathy Davis describes the ...

Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Swapan Chakravorty, Suzana Milevska, Tani E. Barlow, Eds.) (Seagull Books, 2006, $17.95 paperback) This collection contains four interviews with Gayatri Chakravorty ...

New Black Feminist Criticism.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008 ... New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000, Barbara Christian (Gloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene R. Keizer, Eds.) (University of Illinois Press, 2007, $35.00 cloth) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Editors Gloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene R. Keizer celebrate ...

Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change.(Brief article)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change, Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist, Eds. (Temple University Press, 2007, $34.95 paperback) Editors Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist present a comprehensive overview of Title IX's ...

Women leading education across the continents: sharing the knowledge and fanning the flame.(From Where I Sit)

Jan 01, 2008; Sobehart, Helen C. ... I began my first job in academic administration twenty-five years ago. Having quickly observed that the "real work" happened at lunch, over drinks, and at the golf course, I participated in those activities with my colleagues who, of course, were male. One day my two attentive supervisors ...

Women's health and well-being: an international teaching collaboration.(From Where I Sit)

Jan 01, 2008; Staking, Kimberlee ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I entered the doctoral program in Women's Studies five years ago, I would never have envisioned myself becoming part of an international collaboration working to improve women's health around the globe. I became involved with transnational teaching ...

Political reforms for access and equity: women's education in the United Arab Emirates, from 1938 to the present.(Global Perspective)

Jan 01, 2008; Bilkhair, Aisha ... Women's education has evolved substantially since the discovery of oil in the Gulf region and the subsequent formation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from seven Gulf states in 1971. After that date, influential social trends and key political decisions have enabled women to participate ...

NCES projects enrollment increases for women, people of color.(National Center for Education Statistics)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... In December 2007, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released Projections of Education Statistics to 2016, a report detailing expected enrollments, degree attainment, and expenditure patterns in the coming decade. The report indicated that both college enrollment and ...

New report on assessment of women's studies programs released.(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... The National Women's Studies Association recently released a new report, Questions for a New Century: Women's Studies and Integrative Learning (2007), by Amy K. Levin, director of Women's Studies and professor of English at Northern Illinois University. The report revisits past analyses of ...

New study: "masculine" women most likely targets of sexual harassment in colleges and in the workplace.(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... In an article recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (2007), Jennifer L. Berdahl suggests that sexual harassment functions as a systemic form of discrimination deployed to enforce gender norms in the workplace. Sexual harassment is commonly described as stemming from ...

Fall issue of Ms. Magazine celebrates 35th anniversary of Title IX.(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... The Fall 2007 collector's edition issue of Ms. Magazine highlighted the significant strides made toward women's equity in the United States since the magazine's founding and Title IX's passage thirty-five years ago. The issue makes a powerful statement about the difference women's activism ...

Department of Education releases new report on "Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities".(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... In September 2007, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics released a new report, Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities. The report focuses on data disaggregated by race and ethnicity and includes data on gender. ...

Catalyst releases new report on the "double bind" of gender stereotypes.(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... By analyzing survey responses of U.S. and international business leaders, Catalyst, a nonprofit group working to improve women's professional opportunities, recently confirmed that the "double bind" of gender stereotypes still affects women in the workplace. Noting that women hold over 50 ...