Melissa Baca, Caregiving Task Force member and UW-La Crosse graduate was featured in the La Crosse Tribune on December 19, 2020, in a piece called “Single mom graduating from UW-L this weekend hopes to create a ripple from the support she received.” Baca completed her degree in the UW-L Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department …
Caregiving Task Force member and UW-Madison Biomedical Engineering faculty member Dr. Kristyn Masters has co-authored an article in PLOS Computational Biology, “Ten simple rules for women principal investigators during a pandemic.” Noting the evaporation of childcare options during the pandemic, which disproportionately increases the workload for large numbers of women, as well as the higher …
Below please find an Alumni Spotlight for 2018 UW-Eau Claire WGSS Graduate Lindsay Sherman. Lindsay graduated with a major in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and a minor in Psychology. Read Lindsay’s spotlight below! Hi everyone! My name is Lindsay, and I graduated from UWEC in 2018. At UWEC, I majored in Women’s Gender and …
This past October, UW-Platteville senior and WGS minor gave a presentation at the 2020 Red River Women’s Studies Conference, hosted by North Dakota State University. Mumma presented on black women and the suffrage movement. Mumma, a WGS minor with double majors in agriculture education and environmental horticulture, learned about the opportunity for the presentation while …
WGSC Director and Caregiving Task Force Co-Chair Dr. Stephanie Rytilahti was featured in a December 2020 article by The Badger Herald, “Women Face Additional Challenges Balancing Work, Home Life Amid Pandemic.” “I think that there are a lot of ingrained gender roles that are still embedded in the distribution of household labor…I definitely think the …
Dr. Dong Isbister, Professor and Program Coordinator of WGS at UW-Platteville, has published an anthology, “Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-Ethnic Anthology of Fiction and Nonfiction.” This book’s genesis began in 2014 at a conference in Wisconsin entitled, “Gendered Planet: Ethics, Ecology, and Equity.” At the conference, Professor Isbister delivered a presentation on …
UW-Stout WGS Professor Rickie-Ann Legleitner has received the Outstanding Teacher Award for 2020-21, on behalf of UW-Stout Academic Affairs. Evaluation criteria for the award included 1) scholarly approach and creativity regarding methods for teaching and learning; 2) overall contributions to the discipline, university, community, and education as a whole; 3) impact on student engagement and …
In a piece called “Labor Day: Caregivers in the home are taking on more work, new obligations due to the pandemic,” the Caregiving Task Force, including WGSC Director Stephanie Rytilahti and WGSC Board Member Women and Science Program Director Jenny Schuttlefield-Christus, have been cited in a piece published the Green Bay Press Gazette. The pandemic …
The Caregiving Task Force was highlighted in a piece called “Babar in the Room,” published in Inside Higher Ed in August 2020. The Inside Higher Ed piece lists the Caregiving Recommendations created in June 2020 by the Caregiving Task Force. Faculty parents are once again being asked to perform a miracle: Get their students and their …
Please see this statement from the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium regarding Caregiving Recommendations to UW System Campus Leaders, as the UW System campuses prepare to return to campus in Fall 2020.