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Women’s Leadership Can Help Drive Climate Solutions

Katherine E Kerlin — August 16, 2022 - 1:06pm

Women’s leadership and gender equity can help drive climate solutions and reduce carbon emissions, according to studies summarized by WECAN and the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis ModLab.

51�ԹϺ�� Davis Historians Bring Women’s Stories to National Parks of the Pacific, West

Karen Michele Nikos — March 28, 2022 - 9:00am

Visit most national parks, and you’ll 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.

51�ԹϺ�� Davis Historians Receive National Parks Funding to Collect Women’s Stories

Karen Michele Nikos — September 02, 2020 - 4:30pm

Two University of California, Davis, historians have received funding from the National Park Service to address the educational gap in U.S. women’s history and role in the nation’s national parks. Professors Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor 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’s lives to the ongoing struggle for voting rights.

Is There (Still) a Gender Gap?

Karen Michele Nikos — December 19, 2019 - 11:04am

“A few years ago I took my children on a tour of the state Capitol building. My daughter was very interested in the art — the woodwork, the decorative tiles and the paintings. After viewing the gallery of governor portraits, she turned to me and asked, ‘Where are all the girls?’”

Most American History About Women Not Written By Women. Until Now.

Karen Michele Nikos — January 09, 2019 - 4:24pm

51�ԹϺ�� Davis Historians Set the Women's History Records Straight

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa Materson of the University of California, Davis, collaborators in research and teaching of women’s and gender history for 10 years, were keenly aware of many fascinating stories about women in history, as uncovered by female historians.

But getting those stories into the big narratives of history was more than one or two people could accomplish.

Women Write Women’s History

Karen Michele Nikos — December 20, 2018 - 4:34pm

But getting those stories into the big narratives of history was more than one or two people could accomplish.

Then Oxford University Press asked the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis scholars, both associate professors of history in the College of Letters and Science, to create a women’s history handbook.

Women Tell Women’s History in Oxford Handbook

Karen Michele Nikos — December 20, 2018 - 10:26am

Oxford University Press asked two 51�ԹϺ�� Davis professors to create a first women’s history handbook. All authors are women.

Despite Social Development, Gender Attitudes Chart Different Course Globally

Karen Michele Nikos — August 13, 2018 - 12:55pm

In the half century since the birth of the women’s movement in the West in the 1960s, support for gender equality has spread around the globe — but in uneven ways

Mating market trumps biology in relationships

IET WebDev — January 14, 2015 - 10:00am

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 University of California, Davis, study.

The study found that in communities where men outnumbered women, men were much more likely to be looking for a committed, long-term relationship.