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Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. [1] [2] The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies.
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...
A 2007 study reported that between fifteen and fifty-seven percent of transgender individuals report some kind of employment discrimination; of these thirteen to fifty-six percent reported being fired due to their gender identity, thirteen to forty-seven percent reported that they were denied employment due to their gender identity, twenty-two ...
Women's studies is related to the fields of gender studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies, and more broadly related to the fields of cultural studies, ethnic studies, and African-American studies. [4] Women's studies courses are now offered in over seven hundred institutions in the United States, and globally in more than forty countries.
Leaders, including Ida B. Wells, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Mary Church Terrell, addressed issues of American race and gender discrimination when they traveled abroad. The International Council of Women of the Darker Races brought together women of color to eliminate language, cultural, and regional barriers.
Gender studies starts with questions that most people have considered, at least casually, at some point in their lives – and it can get heady fairly quickly. As a good natural sciences student ...
Research released this week by Bank of America found the difference in median annual income growth between men and women is falling—down to 4% by the end of 2024 compared with 6.5% in 2022.
All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America (U of Georgia Press, 1989), pp. 63–100 on education. Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (1990).