News: Gender inequality

In this post for our special series on social work in times of crisis, several researchers who are involved in…

According to the findings of Professor Qin Gao and her colleagues, China, too, has a ways to go in lessening…

Since its inception in 1950, the doctoral program at Columbia School of Social Work has produced many of the world’s…

Adolescent drug use may be a universal problem, but its gendered aspects have been chronically under-explored. For more than a…

In an op-ed for the Montreal Gazette, second-year student Gabrielle Cole argues that Quebec’s values charter would encourage exclusion at home and hurt its image elsewhere. She developed these ideas in a Contemporary Social Issues class.

In this podcast, Carmen Gonzalez, Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law, discusses the provenance, methodology, and findings of her path-breaking book about the hurdles faced by women of color in the academy. Professor Gonzalez visited the Columbia School of Social Work in September for talks with faculty, advisors, and administrators.

Professor Nabila El-Bassel wonders whether policy makers who have set the zero AIDS goal are accounting for the unique situation of at-risk women and girls—a population that historically has not received as much attention as other key groups.