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Founded in 2019, the CLASS Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality is the first university-based think tank on gender and sexuality in our region. Focused on Houston and Harris County, our researchers examine the many challenges around these matters now facing individuals, policymakers, businesses and the community. Read More
News
IRWGS 2022 Birth Rate Report on SNL
Houston Recognizes Equal Pay Day: A Call for Progress on the Gender Wage Gap
UH IRWGS Report to the Community – Houston Area Domestic Violence Providers Study – Executive Summary – February 2023
UH IRWGS DV Providers Study – Report to the Community – February 2023
Houston’s Same-Sex Couples
Houston’s first women’s commission on health, economic disparities created
MaryRoss Taylor gifted the University $1 million to establish an endowed professorship in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality.
Jobs for Men but Not for Women?
Men die at a higher rate from COVID than women. So why are they less likely to take the vaccine? (Houston Chronicle)
Death and childcare — more men die but more women lose work from COVID-19 (Houston Chronicle)
What This Country Needs Is a Working Parents Administration [OpEd The Nation]
Jump Start Education Equity during COVID
Build an economy of care: universal income makes sense now and for the future [Houston Chronicle: Op Ed]
The Cost of Medical Marginalization under Covid
Video & transcript of ABC13 Panel on “Why are women leaving the workplace - and how to remedy it.” Insights from UH IRWGS director and other Houston experts
Pandemic Highlights Plight of Female Health Workers
Texas Frontline Workers Mostly Women
Flatten the Curve on Domestic Violence
Gender and Local Pay Gaps in Houston
Guillermo De Los Reyes Launches a Journal: Sexuality, Gender & Policy
Research
Texas & Harris County Reproductive Health Update: 2022 Fertility Rates, post 2021 Six-Week Abortion Ban
Effects of State-Level Abortion and LGBT Laws and Policies on Interstate Migration Attitudes
Houston Area Domestic Violence Providers Study Initial Local DV Data Aggregation
UH researchers unpacking disparities in Black maternal health
Houston/Harris County Gender & Sexuality Data: Second Annual Report - May 2021
Pan Gen Snapshot #12: IRWGS Pandemic Snapshot #12 – October 7, 2022
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Houston Data Files
Good data is needed to inform good policy. But what is good data and how is data inflected by who we are? Join Dr. Elizabeth Gregory (UH-IRWGS) and Dr. Shreela Sharma (UT-SPH) as they and their guests parse out the complexities of Houston and Harris County data as it relates to intersectional gender and sexuality dynamics. Topics include health, economics, childcare, violence, workforce issues and more.
VIDEO
Houston Recognizes Equal Pay Day: A Call for Progress on the Gender Wage
Good data is needed to inform good policy. But what is good data and how is data inflected by who we are? Join Dr. Elizabeth Gregory (UH-IRWGS) and Dr. Shreela Sharma (UT-SPH) as they and their guests parse out the complexities of Houston and Harris County data as it relates to intersectional gender and sexuality dynamics. Topics include health, economics, childcare, violence, workforce issues and more.