• Leadership Change at the Wellesley Centers for Women
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    Leadership Change at the Wellesley Centers for Women

    January 2025

    After more than 12 years as the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., will leave at the end of February to serve as president of the University of Liberia.

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  • New Research & Action Report: Celebrating 50 Years of Social Change
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    New Research & Action Report: Celebrating 50 Years of Social Change

    December 2024

    This special 50th anniversary edition of the Research & Action Report looks back at some of our most significant accomplishments of the last 50 years—and looks ahead to how our research scientists and project directors are taking that work into the future.

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    Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame

    March 2024

    Senior Research Scientist Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame alongside Serena Williams, Ruby Bridges, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and six others.

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  • Homepage - Evaluating Planned Parenthood
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    Evaluating Planned Parenthood's Sex Ed Program for High Schoolers

    December 2023

    Senior Research Scientist Jennifer M. Grossman, Ph.D., received a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate the effectiveness of "Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works," a program for high school students.

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The

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.

PROJECTS

 Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2002 

Joan Kaufman joined WCW this past summer as special consultant to the executive director on global issues. From 1996 to 2001 Joan was the Ford Foundation’s program officer for reproductive health in China where she was responsible for formulating the foundation’s
reproductive-health programming and then supporting work in the fields of sexuality, reproductive health, and gender throughout China. During the 2002 academic year she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to her role here at WCW this year, she is a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School in the East Asian legal studies program.

Joan Kaufman joined WCW this past summer as special consultant to the executive director on global issues. From 1996 to 2001 Joan was the Ford Foundation’s program officer for reproductive health in China where she was responsible for formulating the foundation’s
reproductive-health programming and then supporting work in the fields of sexuality, reproductive health, and gender throughout China. During the 2002 academic year she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to her role here at WCW this year, she is a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School in the East Asian legal studies program.

 
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