Topic: Gender

Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies.

The latest RAC New Research series highlights reports from archival research by stipend recipients, covering diverse subjects from prison plastic surgery policies in the Civil Rights era to Indian art fellowship impacts and the roots of Thai nursing education. It includes discussions on the effects of patronage on video art and Thai-Filipino-American healthcare interactions, revealing the historical role of Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in enabling progressive social and cultural studies.

A 1994 meeting moved women’s empowerment front and center for grantmaking in global population.

When Dr. Katherine Bement Davis was named general secretary of the Bureau in 1917, her appointment transformed the organization to take into deeper account women’s sexuality.

A massive program in nursing education extended to 53 schools across the globe. But it never became a top priority of the foundation that supported it.

Prompted by Reagan-era budget cuts, a new program serving low-income single parents receiving public aid failed to meet its constituents’ needs.

Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.

A foundation’s early criticism of the all-male conference panel, before #nomoremanels

The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.

Philanthropy helped carve out a public space for the expression of race, culture, and critical perspectives.