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Carol Tracy was unanimously chosen as the recipient of the 2021 Faculty Award given annually by the Friars Senior Society, Penn’s oldest and most active senior honor society. The Executive Director of the Women's Law Project, Tracy teaches a regular course on sexual and reproductive law and policy for the GSWS Program.

In the latest issue of American Sociological Review, Pilar Gonalon-Pons published "Marriage and Masculinity: Male-Breadwinner Culture, Unemployment, and Separation Risk in 29 Countries," which includes analysis of data for married and cohabiting heterosexual couples in 29 countries from 2004 to 2014, to provide robust evidence that male-breadwinner norms are a key driver of the association between men’s unemployment and the risk of separation. Abstract: 

A new book from Akira Drake Rodríguez examines how public housing developments served as an entry point for residents to fight for democracy. Read the PennToday coverage of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing. 

On behalf of the Program in GSWS at Penn, we wish to congratulate this year's graduating seniors!
Simran Chand (honors)
Annah Chollet (honors)
Connor Hardy (honors)
Erin O'Malley (honors)
Madison Pettaway
Fisher Taylor (honors)
Claire Sliney (honors)
Zoe Walker
You can read more about the work of GSWS honors thesis students on our website.
 

Dear Friends and Colleagues:
 
You would, by now, have read or seen the devastating impacts of the COVID pandemic in India this past month. This wave is only beginning. By August of this year, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts over one million people will die of COVID in India alone. This moment calls for a response that exceeds this moment. 

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Pilar Gonalons-Pons was quoted in the New York Times in a story titled "What Do Women Want? For Men to Get Covid Vaccines." Gonalons-Pons noted that gender disparities in care giving may be partly to blame for the gender gap in who has received the vaccine, since women take on a disproportionate amount of care work.

GSWS Senior Annah Chollett was one of 20 students named by Penn Arts & Sciences as a 2021 Dean’s Scholar. This honor is presented annually to students who exhibit exceptional academic performance and intellectual promise. Read more here.

Professor Heather Sharkey and her students worked to transcribe suffragist Alice Paul's dissertation for her 1912 Penn doctoral degree. Read the full story in Penn Today. 

Incoming Director and GSWS faculty member Melissa Sanchez received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.