For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.More
The 2024 recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award are Claire Parkinson ’70, climate change scientist and social justice advocate; Joanne Berger-Sweeney ’79, college president and professor of neuroscience; and Amy Weaver ’89, business leader and…More
Dazzlingly plotted and thematically rich, Elizabeth Percer’s second novel, All Stories Are Love Stories , opens by drawing on graffiti anonymously scrawled on the ruins of San Francisco’s Sutro baths.More
In this slim book, two old friends—one a writer (American, in her 70s), the other a painter (French, in her 90s)—engage in a series of conversations about the Big Imponderables: creativity, literature, art, war, womanhood.More
Coloring books for adults are having a moment: According to Publishers Weekly , sales in 2015 soared above 1.5 million. Now there’s a new title in the mix.More
