Month: August 2016

In Memory of Joan Acker: 1924 – 2016

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Pictured is Joan Acker.

Memorial Service: Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, Gerlinger Lounge, UO campus June 22, 2016—CSWS received word of the passing of feminist scholar Joan Acker, a leader of the original group that established a center to study women at the University of…

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Women in physics face big hurdles — still

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Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists. August 1, 2016: “There are more women in the sciences than ever before. They hold leading faculty and administrative positions while their representation in fields such as biology, sociology and…

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