The Clayman Institute at Stanford University presents 
GENDER NEWS
Cutting-edge gender research for an inclusive world

 
Features
PC: Jennifer Townhill
 
"Moving Beyond Bias in the Workplace"
 
An overview of the Clayman Institute's latest gender research presented at the Beyond Bias Summit. 
 
By JoAnne Wehner & Marcie Bianco
 
 
PC: Jennifer Townhill
 
"How Does Diversity Spur Innovation?"
 
Research from Beyond Bias Summit Keynote Speaker Katherine W. Phillips reveals the connection.
 
By Kristine Kilanski
 
 
 
In the News
Here is where you can find us: 

Clayman Institute Director  Shelley Correll  was featured in the Atlantic's May issue cover story, "Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?" The cover story was written about at Fortune, and it includes an excerpted quotation from Correll.

Clayman Institute Sociologist and Senior Researcher  Marianne Cooper  authored a piece for the Atlantic about how the tech industry is quickly becoming the face of activism in the age of Trump. The piece also includes expert commentary from the Institute's BBS Faculty Research Fellow Sarah Soule

Cooper was also quoted in a Women's Health article about the added pressures placed on women by the mythic force of the "work-life balance."

Caroline Simard, senior director of research at the Clayman Institute, spoke with the
Christian Science Monitor about the empathetic impact of storytelling in transforming the tech workplace's "bro culture."

Clayman Institute Associate Director Alison Dahl Crossley was interviewed by USA Today College about young women's sense of feminist activism on college campuses today.

The BBC interviewed Clayman Institute Researcher JoAnne Wehner about gender biases inherent in the language of leadership.

Former Clayman Institute Director and current Stanford Center on Longevity Director  Laura Carstensen  was quoted in a piece at Bloomberg Businessweek about Stanford's new initiatives for older professionals.   

Clayman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Aliya Rao was interviewed by  MEL Magazine about her research on the gendered emotional costs of men's unemployment. 

Marcie Bianco, Clayman Institute Managing Editor, interviewed former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis for  Vox . She also contributed a piece to Quartz in which she argues that the women's movement has an equality problem. 

BBS Faculty Research Fellow and Senior Director for WorkLife Strategy at Stanford Phyllis Stewart Pires was quoted in a Stanford News piece about the university's ongoing commitment to expand its childcare capacity.

Faculty Research Fellow and Stanford Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Heath  Gary Darmstadt participated in a Health Policy and Policy Soundcloud podcast about a research paper he co-authored on the impact of actions to address gender inequalities on health and development in low and middle income countries. 

And, congratulations are in order for former Clayman Institute Director  Londa Schiebinger, who will receive the Presidential Recognition Award from the American Medical Women's Association on April 1. 

 
Events
April 8, 2017: The Stanford Women's Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute, is a dynamic one-day leadership conference that focuses on critical issues pertaining to women's leadership development; located at the Tresidder Memorial Union, 10 a.m. Registration, available here, is open to all students, faculty, staff, and alumni.



April 19, 2017: The annual Women Entrepreneurs in Sustainability event, co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute, presents an afternoon fireside chat between recent Stanford women founders of sustainability companies, followed by a networking reception; located in the Mackenzie Room, 3rd floor, Huang Engineering Center. RSVP required. You can register here; priority is given to Stanford students.



 
In the Spotlight 
Shining a light on the Clayman Institute's brightest. In this issue, we celebrate the contributions of our new research associate, Melissa Abad. 

Melissa Abad joins us after completing her PhD in sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she completed a study on the suburban immigrant nonprofit sector. The project's inception was connected to the challenges immigrants have faced in the US and was directly influenced by the 2006 May Day marches that occurred in response to the Sensenbrenner bill debated in Congress at the time. She had been working in Georgia and returned to Chicago to become involved in Chicago nonprofits that were actively engaged in advocating for immigrant rights. It was working in one of Chicago's suburbs that inspired her to return school to study why and how suburban Latino immigrants and the nonprofits that worked them with were struggling. What she discovered was that scholarship on immigrant adaptation had a glaring oversight: the experiences of nonprofit staff was completely overlooked in this scholarship.

Through four years of onsite and in-person research, Abad's research unpacked the relationship between the feminization of work in nonprofits and the challenges Latino advocates faced in negotiating their civic and professional responsibilities. From this, she was able to explain how the network of nonprofit staff and local elite attempted to create a welcoming community for Latino immigrants who settled in these communities.  Abad is deliberate in comparing the experiences of not only Latinas to white women, but also in comparing their status in the nonprofit sector to the men who form part of the immigrant service sector.  

At the Clayman Institute, she will continue to use this intersectional lens to examine the career trajectories of people of color in the tech industry, many of whom are immigrants. She's excited to bring her expertise to the experience of professionals in Silicon Valley and to be part of our team dedicated to using research to promote gender equality. 

"Melissa is an expert on the intersections of race, gender, immigration status, and organizational context in shaping career paths and outcomes," Clayman Institute Senior Research Director Caroline Simard said of Abad's various contributions to the Institute. "This is the expertise that academic, nonprofit, and corporate institutions most need as they seek to identify evidence-based solutions that address the specific experiences of men and women across race and ethnicity identity. Melissa has a passion for translating foundational research into practice, and we are thrilled to have her join our team."

 
What We're Reading
Relations between men and women frame the trio of publications by Clayman Institute affiliates, or scholars who recently visited Stanford's campus, selected for this issue of Gender News. The Institute's Beyond Bias Summit's closing keynote speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter examines the barriers to women's advancement through a focus on the gendered nature of "caregiving" in Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family


Recently, Lisa Wade, associate professor of Sociology at Occidental College, visited Stanford to discuss her new book, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. This multi-year study of hookup culture not only reveals how little college students actually like hooking up but, through a gender lens, Wade shows how young women have appropriated masculine ideals of sexual liberation, much to their own disillusionment. 



Clayman Institute affiliate and special lecturer for the Institute's Breaking the Culture of Sexual Assault event on "Masculinity & Men," Michael A. Messner co-authored Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women. The book is a cultural examination of male allies of the women's movement to end sexual violence in the 1970s. The critical message of this book is that men are essential partners in women's fight for justice. 

 
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to implement change that promotes gender equality at Stanford and beyond.