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GSWS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025
Gender Equity in the new economy: Ensuring social justice, equality in the global race to reduce emissions
Bipasha Baruah is working to understand how to ensure a global, low-carbon economy will be more gender-equitable and socially just than its fossil-fuel-based predecessor. Read more.
Visiting Speaker Series 2021 - 2022
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Course Welcome Videos - Fall 2021
Professor Jeremy Johnston - GSWS 3330F: Gender, Race, and Rebellion
Professor Laura Cayen - GSWS 4461: Post-feminism, Advertising, and Influencers
PhD Candidate of Women’s Studies and Transitional Justice Named Vanier Scholars
By Mark Wolfe
Florence Wullo Anfaara, the PhD candidiate of Women’s Studies and Transitional Justice, have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of 2020-21 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Read more.
Alumna’s memoir explores race, city and self
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Eternity Martis, BA'14 (English Language and Literature/Women's Studies), was recently named one of Six Canadian writers of black heritage to watch in 2020 by CBC Books. Read more
Forging on the feminist fitness journey
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Tracy Isaacs (Philosophy) and Samantha Brennan (former Women's Studies/Philosophy professor at Western now Dean of Arts at the University of Guelph) have released a new book, Fit at Mid-Life: A Feminist Fitness Journey. Read more
How to promote gender equity in the green economy
The realities of climate change have prompted many nations to strive for greener industries. This includes the development of new technologies which are less carbon-intensive, and the overhaul of sectors such as energy and transportation where women are traditionally poorly represented in the workforce. As the green economy develops, thousands of jobs will be created, but it is unlikely that women will have equal access to these opportunities. Dr Bipasha Baruah, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Western University, Canada, examines the reasons for this inequality. READ MORE
Women's NGOs are changing the world - and not getting credit for it
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, Western University, on how women's NGOs are improving the lives of women in the developing world, but are often "dismissed as supplementary and dispensable by the other partners." Co-authored by Research Associate, International Development, McGill University. READ MORE
Acid attacks are on the rise, and toxic masculinity is the cause
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, Western University, on acid attacks around the world, the perpetrators' motives and what can be done. Co-authored by lumni, Western University. READ MORE
Alumnae named among Canada’s Most Powerful
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Congratulations to alumna Sarah Saska, PhD’16 (Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western) who has been named a recipient of the "2017 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award" READ MORE
Newsmakers: The Scholar
Levi Hord, a fourth-year Sexuality Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Arts & Humanities (SASAH) and Scholar’s Electives student, was named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship, an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford. Read more
Undergraduate Awards
Warmest congratulations to our students whose papers were selected as “Highly Commended” this year for The Undergraduate Awards Levi Hord, Alessia Mastrorillo & Rebecca Meharchand.
SASAH student awarded Rhodes Scholarship
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Levi Hord is the 23rd Western University student in 110 years to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Read more
Department of Women’s Studies Celebrates 10th Anniversary
February 26, 2017
Thirty years ago, Women’s Studies was just an idea at Western. Now, it’s one of the most dynamic and successful programs in the university. And it couldn’t come at a more needed time. Read more
Ask her anything: Professor Brennan connects with online community
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Samantha Brennan, who teaches in the departments of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Philosophy, and Political Science, recently hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session. Her AMA generated more than 526 comments in two hours and yielded more than 500 up-votes, landing the post a coveted third place spot on the front page of /r/philosophy. Read more
Earth Day prophecy: women rising up in fight against climate chaos
Around the world this Earth Day, as a growing army of women stand up for a more sustainable planet, mainstream environmental groups are becoming more inclusively female. For years, the mainstream environmental movement in North America has been criticized for being the purview (mostly) of white dudes.Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May, who headed up the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006, recalls that while most major national environmental groups had male executive directors in the 80s and 90s, “the real environmental movement was and is, at the grassroots, led by mostly women.”..READ MORE
EBRD 2017 Annual Meeting: making green growth work for women
Bipasha Baruah on the gender gap in the renewable energy sector
First, there is systemic misperception and devaluation of women’s technical abilities. Women in technical fields are deemed less competent than men even when they are more highly qualified than their male peers. Second, women are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) fields almost everywhere in the world, and employment in the best paid jobs in Renewable Energy, namely, construction, installation, engineering and architecture tend to require STEM training. Third, public policies and corporate policies to enable equity in training and employment in RE are either very weak or absent. And finally, the persistence of patriarchal social norms and assumptions about breadwinning and caregiving makes it difficult for women to assert themselves at par with men..READ MORE.
Why I didn’t protest Jordan Peterson’s visit but newspaper coverage almost makes me wish I did
I don’t like our university’s reputation sometimes.
This week, I was at Brock giving an invited guest lecture on micro-inequities and implicit bias to their newly founded women’s caucus and the first question I was asked was about Jordan Peterson. “Didn’t Western give Jordan Peterson a warm welcome? It’s odd having someone from such a conservative campus speak to us about bias and discrimination.” I sighed. I knew the source of the question. “Controversial University of Toronto prof gets warm welcome at Western,” read the National Post headline....READ MORE.
Vanier Scholar Eyes Work, Motherhood and Disability
Emma Donoghue, Madeleine Thien shortlisted for $100K Giller Prize
Emma Donoghue's The Wonder has been nominated for the Giller Prize!
