News

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. 

We wish to extend a message to our community members who are experiencing yet another source of grief, following the shooting of seven women, six of whom were Asian American, along with two men, on March 16th in Atlanta. Their names are Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Soon Park, Hyun Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, and Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz. This act of sexualized and racialized violence is another painful instance of anti-Asian violence and harassment that has also escalated since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

How has the Covid-19 pandemic further stratified inequities in the labor force? Check out this article from Penn Today with experts from across Penn explaining how the pandemic has exacerbated gender inequality and challenged female career advancement in the STEMM fields, education, and business. In particular, this quotation from Pilar Gonalons-Pons exemplifies the importance of support for care work beyond the pandemic: 

Check out the latest article from 34th Street featuring GSWS Associate Director, Dr. Gwendolyn Beetham, who has spearheaded much of the important organizing around care work at Penn over the last several months.