Research and Art Initiatives

C - Change
Directed by Dr. Linda Pololi
The National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine engages medical schools in action-research to facilitate institutional culture changes that allow all faculty members and physicians-in-training to contribute fully and reach their own full potential.

On Equal Terms
Directed by Susan Eisenberg
The On Equal Terms Project draws on research, art, and personal testimony to analyze, convey, and address equity issues for women in historically-male occupations.

Cascading: Downward Mobility through the Prism of Intersectionality
Directed by Dr. Karen V. Hansen
The Cascading Research Group explores the process of falling from a particular status in ways that trigger additional declines. While fundamentally driven by an economic drop, cascading coexists with and provokes multiple losses, which can in turn become a constellation of descents—social, interpersonal, aspirational.

The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project
Directed by Dr. Bernadette Brooten
The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project works to create Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sexual ethics rooted in freedom, mutuality, meaningful consent, responsibility, and female (as well as male) pleasure, untainted by slave-holding values.