During the 2024-2025 academic year, the Wellesley Centers for Women is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As we look back on 50 years of advancing gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing, we are proud of the way we’ve shaped a better world through research and action.
In 1976, we hosted a groundbreaking international conference on Women and Development. Today, Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., is involving women, youth, and others in efforts to combat climate change in Liberia.
When the School-Age Childcare Project was founded in 1978, it brought national attention to the importance of out-of-school time (OST). Today, NIOST is helping OST programs embed literacy into everyday practices.
Beginning in 1991, we participated in a massive national study of whether child care harms children (it does not). Today, Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., is studying how to get home-based child care providers into the field and keep them there.
During the 2024-2025 academic year, the Wellesley Centers for Women is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As we look back on 50 years of advancing gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing, we are proud of the way we’ve shaped a better world through research and action.
From a study of how schools shortchange girls to our work on white privilege, these are some highlights from the past 50 years.
In 1976, we hosted a groundbreaking international conference on Women and Development. Today, Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., is involving women, youth, and others in efforts to combat climate change in Liberia.
When the School-Age Childcare Project was founded in 1978, it brought national attention to the importance of out-of-school time (OST). Today, NIOST is helping OST programs embed literacy into everyday practices.
Beginning in 1991, we participated in a massive national study of whether child care harms children (it does not). Today, Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., is studying how to get home-based child care providers into the field and keep them there.
