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- Feminist collaborations in higher education: stretched across career stagesCategorical career stages offer an institutional framework through which mobilities can be claimed and contested by feminists in academia. Inhabiting career stages uncritically can serve to reproduce neoliberal academic structures that feminists may seek to resist. Collaboration across career stages is a significant empirical case for understanding how feminists occupy academic space. We use auto-ethnographic methods to read career stages and feminist collaboration through each other, analysing the authors' cross-career collaborations and mentoring relationship in a Scottish University.
- Shaping a ‘pedagogical voice’ using feminist pedagogical principlesThis paper examines the development of a 'pedagogical voice', based on feminist pedagogy, among female teacher trainees after one year of supervision and study. The underlying assumption was that the development of a pedagogical voice needs certain learning conditions that help in strengthening awareness of the patriarchal learning culture, as part of the process via which a female teacher trainee becomes a female education professional who can support and defend her approach and actions.
- Mind the (gender) gap: engaging students as partners to promote gender equity in higher education.Gender inequity remains a critical issue in higher education. We explored the proposition that engaging students as partners (SaP), an increasingly adopted approach to student engagement, may present one approach to improving gender equity by fostering agency and leadership for women. First, we analyzed the gender distribution of authors of SaP scholarship spanning 202 articles published in six academic journals over the past five years. Women were more likely to author (70%) and lead (76%) SaP publications. Second, we used collaborative autoethnography to explore our experiences as three women SaP practitioners. Affirmative partnerships built our agency to assert our voices and empowered us to advocate for gender equity. These data indicate that SaP may present one approach to promoting gender equity by creating ‘brave spaces’ and ‘sites of resistance’ against gendered norms in academia.
- Black Feminist Thought and the Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies PhD: A Roundtable DiscussionBased on a roundtable discussion convened at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference, "Forty Years After Combahee," this discussion addresses the fraught relationship between Black feminist thought and doctoral training in gender, women's, and feminist studies (GWFS). While intersectionality is nearly ubiquitously claimed as central to training in GWFS PhD programs, its institutionalization can serve to defang and dehistoricize the centrality of Black feminisms and womanisms, as well as marginalize, exclude, and/or fetishize Black feminists training and teaching in such programs.
- Liberating or indoctrinating? Surveying students' perceptions of a Womens' and Gender Studies requirementThis article offers new insight into students' responses to Womens' and Gender Studies (WGS) classes by overcoming the self-selection bias hitherto inherent in the field. Exploring the experiences of 1406 students (770 women, 636 men) of a university with a WGS requirement across all study programmes, we examine the prevailing discourses on WGS, participants' (dis)agreement as well as personal and professional benefits gained through WGS.
- Rewards and resistance: the importance of teaching women’s and gender studies at a southern, comprehensive, liberal arts universityThe discipline of women's and gender studies [WGS] often attracts criticism from the media, the public, and students. Few recent empirical studies focus on the experiences of faculty who teach WGS courses - particularly professors teaching in conservative areas. To address this gap in the literature, I conducted 30 interviews with faculty who teach courses related to women, gender, and/or sexuality at a Southern, public, liberal arts university in the United States. Participants noted the importance and rewards of teaching WGS. However, only half of participants reported integrating WGS content outside of gender-focused courses. This disparity between emphasising the importance of WGS and refraining from teaching gendered content outside of ‘special topics’ courses is likely due to professors aiming to avoid conflict and maintain credibility in the classroom and feeling sceptical of institutional support. My findings have broader implications that call for institutional change regarding support for professors and WGS.
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Call Number: HQ880.4.U6 T73 2016ISBN: 9781476716565Publication Date: 2016-10-11In 2010, journalist Rebecca Traister started a book that she thought would be about the twenty-first-century phenomenon of the American single woman. Over the course of her research, Traister made a startling discovery: historically, when women have had options beyond early heterosexual marriage, their resulting independence has provoked massive social change. Unmarried women were crucial to the abolition, suffrage, temperance, and labor movements; they created settlement houses and secondary education for women. Today, only 20% of Americans are wed by age 29, compared to nearly 60% in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a "dramatic reversal." Traister sets out to examine how this generation of independent women is changing the world.
Women's Studies by Call Number: HQ1180 .S58 2019ISBN: 9781138495937Publication Date: 2019-04-15The invention of women's studies -- The foundations of interdisciplinarity -- Intersectionality and difference : race, class, and gender -- Global agendas -- Violence, militarization, security, and peace -- Women's studies and the question of gender -- Feminist theories and methods -- Embodiment and sexuality -- Classrooms, controversies, and citizenship -- The future of women's studies in our information age.
The Moment of Lift by Call Number: HQ1155 .G38 2019ISBN: 9781250313577Publication Date: 2019-04-23Chapter One. The lift of a great idea -- Chapter Two. Empowering mothers: Maternal and newborn health -- Chapter Three. Every good thing: Family planning -- Chapter Four. Lifting their eyes: Girls in schools -- Chapter vie. The silent inequality: Unpaid work -- Chapter Six. When a girl has no voice: Child marriage -- Chapter Seven. Seeing gender bias: Women in agriculture -- Chapter Eight. Creating a new culture: Women in the workplace -- Chapter Nine. Let your heart break: The lift of coming together.
Invisible Women by Call Number: HQ1237 .C75 2019ISBN: 9781419729072Publication Date: 2019-03-12Introduction : The default male -- Daily Life. Can snow-clearing be sexist? ; Gender neutral with urinals -- The Workplace. The long Friday ; The myth of meritocracy ; The Henry Higgins effect ; Being worth less than a shoe -- Design. The plough hypothesis ; One-size-fits-men ; A sea of dudes -- Going to the Doctor. The drugs don't work ; Yentl syndrome -- Public Life. A costless resource to exploit ; From purse to wallet ; Women's rights are human rights -- When it Goes Wrong. Who will rebuild? ; It's not the disaster that kills you.
Bad Feminist by Call Number: HQ1421 .G39 2014ISBN: 9780062282712Publication Date: 2014-08-05Feminism (n.): Plural -- Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me -- Peculiar benefits -- Typical first year professor -- To scratch, claw, or grope clumsily or frantically -- How to be friends with another woman -- Girls, girls, girls -- I once was Miss America -- Garish, glorious spectacles -- Not here to make friends -- How we all lose -- Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's "Skinny" -- The smooth surfaces of idyll -- The careless language of sexual violence -- What we hunger for -- The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion -- The spectacle of broken men -- A tale of three coming out stories -- Beyond the measure of men -- Some jokes are funnier than others -- Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown so much they would let him beat them -- Blurred lines, indeed -- The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us -- The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on "The help" -- Surviving "Django" -- Beyond the struggle narrative -- The morality of Tyler Perry -- The last day of a young Black man -- When less is more -- The politics of respectability -- When Twitter does what journalism cannot -- The alienable rights of women -- Holding out for a hero -- A tale of two profiles -- The racism we all carry -- Tragedy, call, compassion, response -- Bad feminist : take one -- Bad feminist : take two.
- American Association for Women in Community CollegesThe American Association for Women in Community Colleges is the leading national organization that champions women and maximizes their potential at community colleges. Founded in 1973, AAWCC provides education, career development, and advancement to women educators and students at community colleges. As a council of the American Association of Community Colleges, AAWCC and its members are committed to equity and education of all women students at community colleges across the nation.
- Business and Professional Women of ColoradoBusiness and Professional Women of Colorado (BPW Colorado) is a leader for women's rights. We advocate for women's equity and support each other's personal and professional growth through networking opportunities, professional programs, and more. We are passionate about equity for all women and use our collective voice to advocate for change on a local, state and federal level.
- Colorado Women's Chamber of CommerceProvide women opportunities that better our community and economy, help women grow their businesses and their careers; ultimately finding success in work and in life.
- Denver Women's CommissionThe Denver Women’s Commission promotes the social, economic and political quality of life in Denver by assisting women in the attainment of equality and full opportunity.
- The Gathering PlaceThe Gathering Place (TGP) offers services to combat poverty and address the impacts of marginalization and oppression that are often contributing factors to poverty or homelessness.
- The Women's Foundation of ColoradoWe are a unique community foundation creating more pathways to economic security for Colorado women.
- WomensLaw.orgDespite its name, WomensLaw.org provides information that is relevant to people of all genders, not just women. Our Email Hotline will provide legal information to anyone who reaches out with legal questions or concerns regarding domestic violence, sexual violence, or any other topic covered on WomensLaw.org.
Women in Business/Minority and Women Business Certification
Women in Business Enterprise National Council
Denver Office of Economic Development
Mountain Plains Minority Supplier Development Council (MPSDC)
Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO)
The Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO) helps women entrepreneurs through programs coordinated by SBA district offices. Programs include business training, counseling, federal contracts, and access to credit and capital.
The OWBO oversees Women’s Business Centers (WBCs). These centers seek to level the playing field for all women entrepreneurs, who still face unique obstacles in the business world.
Businesses receiving assistance from WBCs see a significantly better success rate than those without similar support. Find your nearest center.
Funding for women-owned small businesses
The 8(a) Business Development program helps small, disadvantaged businesses compete in the marketplace. Check with WBCs and local assistance resources for guidance, and our Lender Match tool for finding capital.
Women-owned small businesses can also take advantage of SBA loan programs. Our partners offer advice and counseling to help choose the right path for your company.
Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB) Federal Contracting program
This program helps women-owned small businesses compete for federal contracts. Understand the eligibility requirements before applying.
SBA also works with federal agencies to increase contracting opportunities and achieve the government’s five percent contracting goal for women-owned small businesses. Keep an eye out for matchmaking events targeting both the federal and private procurement.
Other resources for women-owned businesses
National Women’s Business Council
The National Women’s Business Council is a non-partisan federal advisory council serving as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Council is the government’s only independent voice for women entrepreneurs, tackling important and relevant economic issues.
Get training online with DreamBuilder
DreamBuilder introduces participants to all areas of business ownership through a carefully crafted and engaging curriculum, featured in English and Spanish. At the conclusion of the program, women leave with a business plan to start their own business or develop an existing one.
Following are more partner resources on women-owned small business.
- Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)
- Association of Women's Business Centers (AWBC)
- National Association of Women in Construction
- National Association of Women in Real Estate Businesses (NAWRB)
- National Association of Women's Business Owners (NAWBO)
- U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce (USWCC)
- Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
- Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP)
- Women's Presidents' Organization (WPO)
Minority and Women’s Chambers’ Coalition
In 1989, six chambers of commerce formed an alliance on behalf of the common business needs of their members. Members of the Minority and Women’s Chambers Coalition (including the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce) includes:
Asian Chamber of Commerce
www.asianchambercommerce.org
Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce
www.coloradoblackchamber.org
Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
https://www.hispanicchamberdenver.com/
Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce
http://rmicc.org/
Colorado LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce
https://colgbtqcc.org/
Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI)
Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce