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Women Content for UC DavisenGender Equity in Leadership Reduces CO2 Emissions
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Gender equity can help drive climate solutions and reduce carbon emissions, according to studies summarized by WECAN and the UC Davis ModLab.August 16, 2022 - 1:06pmKatherine E Kerlin/climate/blog/gender-equity-leadership-reduces-emissionsUC Davis Historians Bring Women鈥檚 Stories to National Parks of the Pacific, West
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<p><span><span><span><span>Visit most national parks, and you鈥檒l see, read or hear about explorers, labor leaders or even some of the Native people whose homelands are part of park regions. But few of these stories, monuments or even trail signs feature women, especially Native women or other women of color, despite the roles women played in shaping the landscape and its uses. </span></span></span></span></p>March 28, 2022 - 9:00amKaren Michele Nikos/curiosity/news/uc-davis-historians-bring-womens-stories-national-parks-pacific-westUC Davis Historians Receive National Parks Funding to Collect Women鈥檚 Stories
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<p>Two 榴莲视频, Davis, historians have received funding from the National Park Service to address the educational gap in U.S. women鈥檚 history and role in the nation鈥檚 national parks. Professors Ellen Hartigan-O鈥機onnor and Lisa Materson will craft 80 biographies of women involved in national parks in the western region of the United States, and, in a longer article, connect those women鈥檚 lives to the ongoing struggle for voting rights.</p>September 02, 2020 - 4:30pmKaren Michele Nikos/curiosity/news/uc-davis-historians-receive-national-parks-funding-collect-womens-stories-1Is There (Still) a Gender Gap?
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<p class="text-align-center"> <em>鈥淎 few years ago I took my children on a tour of the state Capitol building. My daughter was very interested in the art 鈥� the woodwork, the decorative tiles and the paintings. After viewing the gallery of governor portraits, she turned to me and asked, 鈥榃here are all the girls?鈥欌€�</em></p>December 19, 2019 - 11:04amKaren Michele Nikos/curiosity/news/is-there-gender-gapMost American History About Women Not Written By Women. Until Now.
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<h2 class="heading--underline">UC Davis Historians Set the Women's History Records Straight</h2>
<p>Ellen Hartigan-O鈥機onnor and Lisa Materson of the 榴莲视频, Davis, collaborators in research and teaching of women鈥檚 and gender history for 10 years, were keenly aware of many fascinating stories about women in history, as uncovered by female historians.</p>
<p>But getting those stories into the big narratives of history was more than one or two people could accomplish. </p>January 09, 2019 - 4:24pmKaren Michele Nikos/curiosity-gap/most-american-history-about-women-not-written-women-until-nowWomen Write Women鈥檚 History
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<p>Ellen Hartigan-O鈥機onnor and Lisa Materson of the 榴莲视频, Davis, collaborators in research and teaching of women鈥檚 and gender history for 10 years, were keenly aware of many fascinating stories about women in history, as uncovered by female historians.</p>
<p>But getting those stories into the big narratives of history was more than one or two people could accomplish. </p>
<p>Then Oxford University Press asked the UC Davis scholars, both associate professors of history in the College of Letters and Science, to create a women鈥檚 history handbook.</p>December 20, 2018 - 4:34pmKaren Michele Nikos/books/blog/women-write-womens-historyWomen Tell Women鈥檚 History in Oxford Handbook
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<p>Oxford University Press asked two UC Davis professors to create a first women鈥檚 history handbook. All authors are women.</p>December 20, 2018 - 10:26amKaren Michele Nikos/news/women-tell-womens-history-oxford-handbookDespite Social Development, Gender Attitudes Chart Different Course Globally
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<p>In the half century since the birth of the women鈥檚 movement in the West in the 1960s, support for gender equality has spread around the globe 鈥� but in uneven ways</p>August 13, 2018 - 12:55pmKaren Michele Nikos/news/despite-social-development-gender-attitudes-chart-differentMating market trumps biology in relationships
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<p>The popularly held sexual stereotype concludes that men want as many partners as possible, and women want stability and commitment. But what men and women want from relationships also depends heavily on the supply of potential partners, according to a 榴莲视频, Davis, study.</p>
<p>The study found that in communities where men outnumbered women, men were much more likely to be looking for a committed, long-term relationship.</p>January 14, 2015 - 10:00amIET WebDev/news/mating-market-trumps-biology-relationships