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Women's Research Institute of Nevada News

Current Women's Research Institute of Nevada News

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Research |

UNLV-led study is the first to examine attitudes of men toward the social media housewife trend that calls for return to traditional gender roles.

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Campus News |

A selection of top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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UNLV History |

Five women share their stories on the former president's influence on UNLV and the empowerment of women at UNLV.

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People |

President Emerita Carol C. Harter broke down barriers while building up UNLV's status as a research institution.

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People |

For Emily Powers, some of her most important experiences at UNLV happened outside of the classroom — through the Honors College.

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People |

The history-making program manager helps shape college women leaders and advocates for human rights.

Women's Research Institute of Nevada In The News

Guardian

A cottage industry of women are selling courses aligned with a conservative movement that claims feminism is the source of women’s discontent

Kleine Zeitung

For the first time, a study has examined the "Tradwife" trend. Instead of the expected "benevolent paternalism," the study leaders encountered enormous devaluation of women.

Telegraph

Women thrive on the liberty, autonomy and freedom to make their own way denied them by this regressive movement

Futurism

The tradwife aesthetic, as it’s sold to women, is easy enough to understand. In our world of social media addiction and dead-end wage labor, it can be tempting to find comfort in the sourdough fantasy of post-war soda ads: a retreat to a simpler, if not archaic, time in recent history.

Hysteria Podcast

In this episode, Erin and Alyssa talk about Trump’s nuclear war threats, Congressman Tony Gonzales sex pesting, again, and ICE’s pattern of lies. Then they dissect Pam Bondi’s ousting, and why Republicans’ gaggle of trad wives can’t escape the patriarchal system they champion.

Salon

A new study shows submissive women aren't cherished but are held in contempt

Women's Research Institute of Nevada Experts

An expert in adolescent development and gender development, particularly as it relates to career choice.
An expert on judges, judicial selection, and race and gender bias.
An expert in U.S. women's history, political activism, oral history, and feminism.

Recent Women's Research Institute of Nevada Accomplishments

The Women's Research Institute of Nevada hosted the inaugural meeting of the UNLV Gender & Sexuality Research Network on Dec. 11. The event brought together UNLV employees who engage in scholarship and other professional endeavors related to gender and sexuality. Please contact Rachael Robnett, director of the Women's Research Institute and…
The Women’s Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) has been awarded a Nevada Humanities American Rescue Plan Recovery Program Grant. Funded in part with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this $10,000 award will be used to support humanities-based programming for the Girls Athletic Leadership School…
Caryll Batt Dziedziak (WRIN and History) has been awarded the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), having made outstanding levels of contributions to SOHA for many years. She was instrumental in establishing the institutional home for SOHA at UNLV in 2014, which provides SOHA with an institutional…
Laura Brennan, Sapira Cheuk (both Art) and Jean Munson (Art and WRIN) have published personal essays and images of their artwork as a part of Nevada Humanities' online program Heart to Heart. Their work considers the place of the artist amidst quarantine and pandemic.
Jean Munson (WRIN) returned home this month from attending the Girls Leadership Power Collaborative on scholarship as a program manager of the National Education of Women's Leadership. She was able to participate and learn about the latest research on the world of learning for women and girls, explore what it means to be a culturally…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and Kate Eugenis ,'17 PhD Political Science, have published their article "Do Voters Prefer Women Judges? Deconstructing the Competitive Advantage in State Supreme Court Elections" in State Politics & Policy Quarterly. In this article, the authors find that…