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Claudia Goldin has illuminated issues like the gender gap in pay, child and elder care and the lack of women economists... These impacts persist, according to Sari Kerr, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women and lecturer in economics, who co-authored a working paper with Goldin on women in the workforce and the career gap. “We still have the perpetual question of how to afford day care, child care and elder care,” Kerr said. “And since that care burden is so unevenly distributed still between men and women, and how to manage that are big questions, certainly.”

The course is called “Bad Bunny and Resistance in Puerto Rico,” which highlights the superstar’s impact on politics, music and society as a whole. Loyola Marymount University has also launched the Bad Bunny Syllabus with Petra Rivera-Rideau, an associate professor of American Studies. It's described as an open educational project that provides resources for other professors and Bad Bunny fans from around the world.

Kate Gilhuly, professor of classical studies, contributed to a translated and illustrated collection of queer Greco-Roman literature that "revived a parade’s worth of ancient queer lovers, mourners, seducers and icons."

Africana studies professor Selwyn Cudjoe reflects on Trinidad and Tobago's Chief Justice Ivor Archie's comments on public sector reform.

Sari Kerr, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women and lecturer in economics, is interviewed on BBC's World Business Report about women and the wage gap starting at 17:00.

"By the time that women reach their mid fifties — I'm thinking especially about the college-educated women — the gains that men and fathers in particular have made in the labor market are so large that no matter what you do at that point, you can't make that ground up," says Sari Pekkala Kerr, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women and lecturer in economics, who co-authored a paper on the "parental gender gap," told Insider. Mothers can make up ground relative to non-mothers, Kerr said, but "the gender gap is just way too large between parents."

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ’99 is “keenly aware of the responsibility that secretaries who serve as their states’ chief election officers bear in reassuring voters that our democracy is secure, fair and accessible, and that election results are an accurate reflection of their will....Whether Trump is eligible to run for president again is a decision not for secretaries of state but for the courts.”

Just last year, Paul Fisher, a professor of American Studies, published “The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World,” speculating on his private life and motivations. Fisher works hard to pull the loose ends of Sargent’s private life together. He posits that Sargent’s hidden agendas were to lionize the nascent female empowerment of the Belle Époque, and the “ever-more-complex modernity” and cultural change of the late 18th century.

Diana Chapman Walsh, President Emerita of Wellesley College, has written an uplifting memoir, entitled The Claims of Life (forthcoming in November from MIT Press). Warm, tender, and honest, it’s a book as much about living a meaningful live as it is being an effective college president.... From beginning at Wellesley with the “belief that I wasn’t smart enough, that I had to work especially hard to hold my own,” through a series of leadership opportunities and challenges, all shared with Chris, her (recently deceased) husband of 57 years, Walsh learned five lessons for being a trustworthy leader - question yourself, establish partnerships, resist the use of force when in power, value differences, and cultivate communities of self-support.