News
APC/GSWS Statement on the Covid-19 Closure, Care Work, and Health Disparities
As COVID 19 continues to reshape our lives, members of the GSWS/APC community take this opportunity to acknowledge the ways that responses ranging from the federal government, to schools, to households, fail to consider how gender, race, sexuality, and class are shaping people’s experiences of this crisis.
GSWS/APC Affiliate Faculty Pilar Gonalons-Pons discusses the impact of the coronavirus on gender disparities in domestic labor
GSWS/APC Affiliate Faculty Pilar Gonalons-Pons' opinion piece "Women already do most domestic work. The coronavirus makes that gap worse" is featured in the Philly Inquirer. Read the article here.
APC/GSWS awarded Sachs Collaborative Provosts Interdisciplinary Grant
The Alice Paul Center, together with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, is pleased to announce that "Performing Environmental Feminisms" has been selected for a Sachs Collaborative Provosts Interdisciplinary Grant in partnership with the Department of Music and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Read the announcement here.
Congratulations to GSWS Honors Thesis Students
The GSWS community congratulates our graduating seniors and invites you to visit our website for descriptions of the honors thesis projects of our seven graduates. Watch a video introducing the work of these students and post a congratulatory message on our YouTube Channel.
Inaugural Lynda S. Hart Teaching Awardees
The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, together with the Alice Paul Center, are pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award: Sophie Hochhäusl (faculty) and Davy Knittle (graduate student).
Visiting Associate Professor Jonathan Katz Interview in ARTnews
An interview with Visiting Associate Professor Jonathan Katz is currently featured on ARTnews. In the interview, Professor Katz discusses art produced during the early years of the AIDS crisis, drawing connections to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
GSWS major Annah Chollet Named Truman Scholar
Congratulations to Annah Chollet, a GSWS and Biological Basis of Behavior double-major, who is one of two Penn juniors to receive a Truman Scholarship this year. Read more about this honor in Penn Today.
How to stay connected during COVID-19 school closure
Dear Members of the University of Pennsylvania Community:We hope this message finds you healthy and safe. The recent turn of events around the COVID-19 pandemic has been shocking in its impact on our daily lives and our immediate future plans.
GSWS/APC Affiliate Faculty Kristen R. Ghodsee discusses women's unpaid labor in The New York Times
GSWS/APC Affiliate Faculty Kristen R. Ghodsee published a piece in The New York Times today with co-author Gus Wezerek titled "Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000." Ghodsee and Wezerek demonstrate that if American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.