The Smith Project on Women and Social Change is an interdisciplinary faculty research group. Founded in 1978, the project draws together faculty from a range of disciplines including anthropology, political science, sociology, education, history, exercise and sport studies, literature, psychology, religion, and economics.
Educating women course (idp 140)
We are pleased to post videos from our six-week course offered this fall at Smith College on Educating Women.
This one-credit course is built around a lecture series addressing the following topics:
September 12, 2012. Why Educate Women?: An overview of the course and a discussion of access and inequity in American education. Speakers: Susan C. Bourque (Government Department, Smith College) and Paula Giddings (African American Studies Department, Smith College).
Video: "Carrie Lee: A Study of Agency and Access in a Time of Discrimination"
Bourque Biography and Photograph
Giddings Biography and Photograph
September 19, 2012. Higher Education for Women and the History of Smith College. Speaker: Carol T. Christ, President of Smith College.
Video: "Higher Education for Women and the History of Smith College"
Christ Biography and Photograph
October 3, 2012. From Jean Jacques Rousseau to Edward Clark: The Impact of European Ideas on American Women's Education. Speakers: Rosetta Cohen (Education and Child Study, Smith College) and Jennifer Hall-Witt (History Department, Smith College).
Cohen Biography and Photograph
Hall-Witt Biography and Photograph
October 10, 2012. Education for Girls and Women in Developing Countries. Panelists: Cris Smith (Center for International Education, UMass Amherst), Beth Murphy (Film Producer); Sharmila Ghosha Sinha (Smith Trustee), and Hoon Eng Khoo (University of Singapore and Smith Trustee).
Smith Biography and Photograph
Sinha Biography and Photograph
October 17, 2012. Gender Differences? Education and Women's Underrepresentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Speakers: Susannah Howe (Picker Engineering Program, Smith College) and Donna Riley (Picker Engineering Program, Smith College).
Riley Biography and Photograph
October 24, 2012. Gender Equity, Education, Law and the Lives of Girls in the aftermath of Title IX. Panelists: Carrie Baker (Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College), Christine M. Shelton (Department of Exercise and Sport Studies, Smith College), and Kim Gandy (Feminist Majority and NOW, Activist-in-Residence).
Baker Biography and Photograph
Shelton Biography and Photograph
Gandy Biography and Photograph
Women's Education Worldwide (WEW) Meetings:
WEW 2013 Faculty Conference, Collaboration: the Way Forward
January 8-10, 2013, Higher Colleges of Technology -- Dubai Women's Campus, Dubai, UAE
Click the Link Above for details and registration forms.
Women's Education Worldwide 2012: Gender Issues in Higher Education: Global and Local Experience
June 8-12, 2012, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Women's Education Worldwide: Faculty Conference 2011
May 31–June 3, 2011
Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WEW FACULTY CONFERENCE, 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2011
VIDEO ABOUT THE WEW FACULTY CONFERENCE
VIDEO OF "MODELS FOR WOMEN'S EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP" BY JILL KER CONWAY
VIDEO OF INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S EDUCATION WORLDWIDE BY JOANNE CREIGHTON
For more information, visit Women's Education Worldwide.
acosta/carpenter study on status of women in intercollegiate sport
35 Year Update released
Women in Intercollegiate Sport, a National, Longitudinal Study - 1977 to 2012
Download at www.acostacarpenter.ORG or go to our Resources page for more information.
