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.
Two WGSC members have been named UW System Teaching Fellows & Scholars Program participants, Co-Chair and UW-Green Bay Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Jessica Van Slooten and UW-River Falls Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Desiree Wiesen-Martin. The UW System Teaching Fellows & Scholars Program “provides UW faculty and teaching academic staff a unique opportunity to …
The WGSC Published a Ms. Magazine article titled, “COVID-19, Disaster Capitalism and the Crisis in Women’s and Gender Studies.” This piece contextualizes some of the trends happening in GWS and higher education within Wisconsin in a larger national and historical context. “For those at the intersections of multiple identities, the current moment only enhances the …
The UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium joins AAUP-Wisconsin and other groups across the state in calling for a new search for the UW System President. As COVID-19 and police brutality intensify the deep roots of systemic racism, it is more important than ever that the new UW System leader embraces a vision of …