“This could be a big, motivating election issue,” said Judith Brown, an emerita professor at Northeastern University Law School who was active in the women’s movement in Massachusetts from the mid-1960s. “They are going to feel the court is dragging this country back to the world that existed in the 1940s and 1950s, where a […]

“Does it put other regulations at risk? It does. There’s no question that it does,” said Jeremy Paul, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

“This decision puts that statute in jeopardy,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst.

Article by Timothy Zick and Diana Palmer

“If you’re working on a project that looks like it’s going to be received really well, there’s more jockeying and competition to get on the authorship list — and basically what we find is that in those cases, it actually looks like women are less likely to end up on the authorship list,” said co-author […]

Measuring what isn’t there, however, is challenging. To overcome this, Matthew Ross, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues used a large data set on almost 10,000 research teams in the United States to investigate who did and did not receive credit for work. 

Co-author Matthew Ross, associate professor of economics and public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, whose work centers on discrimination, said that the survey revealed in some cases women had stepped back from their work for various reasons and saw a corresponding reduction in credit. 

“We really ought to care about attribution,” adds study lead author Matthew Ross, an economist and associate professor at Northeastern University.

The institute, part of Northeastern University, announced the new lineup on Tuesday for the 2022 Founder Residency, which will overlap with the first group that started in January. That group includes packaging startup Tanbark, the winner of the latest Gorham Savings Bank LaunchPad business-pitch contest.

Most experts agree that Title IX, given its widespread support, is not likely to meet similar fates as the Equal Rights Amendment or Roe v. Wade. If and how Title IX could be weakened “is in the eyes of the beholder,” said Libby Adler, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University.

“It’s not whether a reasonable person would believe it, it’s did this person intend it, did this person know it,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s like an escape hatch for the naïve and the deluded.”

Gayle, a journalist and journalism professor at Northeastern University, tells of how one 19th-century Black Creek citizen, Cow Tom, served as an interpreter and negotiator, playing “a special role in bridging the gap between the Creek world and that of the ever-growing world of this newer, whiter America.”