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Image caption: Anita Hill delivers the Jing Lyman Lecture in celebration of our 50th anniversary 
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The Clayman Institute for Gender Research began in 1974 as the first of its kind and remains at the 
cutting edge of gender research.

The Institute empowers students and scholars in three key ways. We conduct and invest in intersectional gender research; mentor students through fellowships and internships; and inspire, translate, and amplify gender scholarship. More about us

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Resources related to sexual assault

The Clayman Institute stands with survivors of sexual assault. We have compiled a list of relevant research and resources, including books, research articles, memoirs, and recent op-eds

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Rosario, Zaina, Bianca

Undergrad interns support research

Three Stanford undergraduates joined the Institute's research team this summer to contribute to projects on workplace NDAs, Covid-19 and intimate partner violence, and a #MeToo letter archive

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Graduate student wins Strober prize

Graduate Dissertation Fellow MAGDALENE ZIER has been awarded the 2026 Myra Strober prize for excellence in writing for Gender News, in recognition of her story on the research of LESLIE ADAMS

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Crossley and Nichols

Sharing research at academic conferences

At a broad range of academic gatherings across the globe, Clayman Institute affiliates shared research with peers and gained feedback on work in development (pictured: ALISON DAHL CROSSLEY and GENEVIEVE SMITH)

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Gender, finance, and AI: compounding inequality

Postdoctoral Fellow GENEVIEVE SMITH looks at smart fintech that claims to expand credit access yet often encodes gender bias in "neutral" algorithms

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Measuring femininity and masculinity

Sociologist ALIYA SAPERSTEIN examined historic tools for measuring the gender traits, offering new measures to provide researchers with a broader range of tools to study contemporary gender diversity and inequality

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New book from Daub: 'What Tech Calls Governing'

In a Q&A for his new book, Director ADRIAN DAUB examines the tech industry’s desire for dominance and how masculinity structures reactionary tech politics

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Stryker

Susan Stryker on her new book 'Changing Gender'

Groundbreaking trans scholar and Distinguished Visitor SUSAN STRYKER discusses her new book Changing Gender in a conversation with Director ADRIAN DAUB

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five colored circles with text: 50-plus years of gender research; 100+ podcast episodes; 5,200 Gender News subscribers; 17 fellowship opportunities; 297 fellows supported
At a moment of intense global crisis, the Clayman Institute offers an ideal model of an inclusive, diverse, and generative environment that should be the standard in academia.
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Marci Kwon, Art and Art History
Faculty Research Fellow

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