Steinem to receive Radcliffe Medal
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that Gloria Steinem, a pioneering feminist, award-winning journalist, and best-selling author, will be awarded the 2010 Radcliffe Institute...
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In March of 1970, 46 female journalists filed a landmark gender-discrimination suit against Newsweek magazine. The female employees there — despite filling a quarter of the masthead — were called...
View ArticleSteinem to receive Radcliffe Medal
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that Gloria Steinem, a pioneering feminist, award-winning journalist, and best-selling author, will be awarded the 2010 Radcliffe Institute...
View ArticleThen and now
In March of 1970, 46 female journalists filed a landmark gender-discrimination suit against Newsweek magazine. The female employees there — despite filling a quarter of the masthead — were called...
View ArticleReal talk
Ifeoma Fafunwa knows there was a time in living memory when Germans gassed gay people along with Jews, Gypsies, and others they considered inferior. So it struck her as ironic when, a few years ago,...
View ArticleDolores Huerta to receive Radcliffe Medal
Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who fought to build a nationwide coalition protecting farmworkers, will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 31, the last day of Harvard’s Commencement week, the...
View ArticleFirst Radcliffe cohort fellows set the feminist stage
The following is excerpted from the book “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty, Ph.D. ’15. She’ll discuss her book online on Tuesday, July...
View ArticleHarvard community reflects on the life, achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A champion of race and gender equality. A pioneering lawyer on women’s equality. A civil rights hero. A feminist symbol. A major pop icon. Notorious RBG. A key justice on the nation’s highest court. As...
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