Affiliated Programs

  • C-Change: National Initiative on Gender, Culture & Leadership in Medicine
  • Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
  • Ernestine Rose Society
  • Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
  • Rebecca Clarke Society
  • Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism
  • The Wage Project

C-Change: National Initiative on Gender, Culture & Leadership in Medicine

The Women’s Studies Research Center, in partnership with five of the country’s leading medical schools, the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), and Brandeis’ Sociology Department is conducting a landmark study to better understand the intransigent under-representation of women and minority faculty in leadership and senior roles in academic medicine, and to develop effective solutions to the long-standing problem.  Recognizing the under-representation of women in leadership positions to be a problem in its own right but also a model for the marginalization of others in academic medicine, the study also examines lack of advancement for under-represented minority and generalist medical faculty.  The study is led by Dr. Linda Pololi, Senior Scientist and Scholar). 

Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)

CFWP is an innovative, timely, and inter-institutional initiative.  The Program conducts innovative, cutting-edge, policy-oriented research.  The program’s guiding premise is that well-functioning communities enhance the ability of families to meet their needs and promote the well-being of employees, their families, and their workplaces.  The goal of CFWP is to enhance work-family balance by attending to the important role played by community.  CFWP employs a research model that highlights the relationship among these three domains.

Ernestine Rose Society

Founded and directed by WSRC Scholar, Paula Doress-Worters, The Ernestine Rose Society works to revive the legacy of "America's first feminist leader."  Recognizing Ernestine Rose's pioneering role in the first wave of feminism, the Society is committed to raising awareness about Ernestine, who did so much to promote women's rights in the United States and internationally. For more information about Ernestine Rose or the Ernestine Rose Society, please visit our website.

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI)

Housed at the WSRC and founded in 1997 at Brandeis University, HBI is the world's first university-based research institute devoted to the study of Jews and gender. The mission of the HBI is to develop fresh ways of thinking about Jews and gender worldwide.

Rebecca Clarke Society

Founded by WSRC Resident Scholar, Liane Curtis, The Rebecca Clarke Society honors the life and work of composer and violinist Rebecca Clark (1886-1979). The Society encourages and supports performances, recordings, publications, writings, and scholarship concerning Clarke and her music.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, the nation’s first independent reporting center based at a university, was launched in September 2004.  Here, seasoned journalists (including WSRC Resident Scholar E.J. Graff, who heads the Institute’s Gender & Justice Project) investigate suspected injustices—and then take our results public, via mainstream and thought-leader publications, broadcasts, and web magazines. We identify, investigate, and cover urgent social issues that aren’t reported, are under-reported, or are mis-reported. We thereby help shape the nation’s public policy agenda.  

The Wage Project

The WAGE Project, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to end wage discrimination against women in the American workplace in the near future.  Our nickname, WAGE, reminds us of the goal we pursue: Women Are Getting Even.  WAGE inspires and helps working women take the steps needed so that every woman is paid what she’s worth.  The organization is led by WSRC Scholar Evelyn F. Murphy, author of Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It.