Maxwell School News and Commentary
Filtered by: Gender and Sex
Andersen quoted in Commercial Appeal article on women in politics
"She was tough,” Kristi Andersen, professor emeritus of political science, says of Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress and whose most enduring victory was the passage of her Women's Armed Forces Integration Act giving women permanent roles in the U.S. military. "She held her own, for sure—as most of these people did."
See related: Gender and Sex, Political Parties, United States
Faulkner speaks to Syracuse.com about women’s rights movement in Central New York
See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex, New York State
Lerner Center research cited in NYT article on working moms, COVID-19
Lerner Postdoctoral Scholar Danielle Rhubart's research found that over 80 percent of U.S. adults who weren’t working because they had to care for their children who were not in school or day care were women.
See related: Child & Elder Care, COVID-19, Gender and Sex, United States
Shi article on low-income female students and the reversal of the Black-White gap published in AERA
See related: Civil Rights, Education, Gender and Sex, Race & Ethnicity
Jenn Jackson paper on Black women’s self-making published in Public Culture
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Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex
Armstrong speaks to the Hill about new Harriet Tubman film
See related: Black, Education, Gender and Sex, Housing, Human Rights, United States
Jackson talks about fighting bigotry during the holidays in Teen Vogue
See related: Education, Gender and Sex, Income, Race & Ethnicity, Social Justice, United States
Jackson weighs in on women's bodily autonomy in Washington Post
"[Deyjah Harris] is an adult—she can pretty much do what she wants—so why is he [Harris' father, Clifford Joseph] still invested in what she does with her body?" says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "These are the types of ways young girls are socialized to understand their bodies do not belong to them, that they are a societal possession."
See related: Children, Adolescents, Gender and Sex, United States
Jackson featured in Medium article on imposter syndrome
"By labeling every single moment of self-doubt expressed by women, primarily those of color, as impostor syndrome, we flatten the complexities and pervasiveness of White Supremacy and patriarchy," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.
See related: Gender and Sex, Mental Health, Race & Ethnicity, United States