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Tyrone Howard's Black Male Institute at UCLA focuses on finding ways to propel black male youth to college and prepare them for success in academia and professional life.

Rogers Brubaker’s new book expands on public discussions of identity around Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal.

Adam Romero, the Arnold D. Kassoy Scholar of Law and Senior Counsel at the Williams Institute at UCLA,co-authored an amici curiae brief regarding North Carolina's bill, which prohibits transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity.

More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector.

It’s important for medical professionals to understand that one’s gender identity as man, woman or trans is different from one’s sexual identity as gay, bisexual, lesbian or heterosexual.

When the project to set up single-stall, all-gender restrooms at UCLA is completed by the end of June, there will be approximately 320 such facilities throughout the campus.

The concept of separating students by sex as a tool for education reform has fallen into a minefield of limited and dubious data as to its effectiveness.

A new report by the UCLA Luskin Center for innovation highlights quality mentoring as a key strategy for reducing inequality.

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, returned to UCLA Anderson, where she got her M.B.A. in 1998, to talk about her career and share her insights on how to succeed in the tech world.

In making her case that LAUSD should be cautious about pursuing single-sex education, gender studies professor Juliet Williams points out the flimsiness of evidence used to support gender-separated classrooms.

Training has caused some men to be so wary of charges of harassment that it stifles women’s opportunities for professional networking, writes Kim Elsesser in the Los Angeles Times.

Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw writes in the Washington Post about how intersectionality brings to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members, but often fail to represent them.

The UCLA Hammer Museum presents artist Mark Bradford and Brandeis University professor Anita Hill in a discussion of feminism as a gateway to activism and social justice, 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 2, at the Billy Wilder Theater.

In its historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court today cited research by Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

Better mentorship, revised performance reviews and more transparency are among the recommendations shared at a recent UCLA conference that attempted to figure out how to increase the number of women in tech.

The director of the Center for Gender-Based Biology at UCLA co-wrote an op-ed stating that we should be careful not to confuse the properly banned gay-conversion therapy with potentially helpful therapy for gender dysphoria.

UCLA professor Linda Sax is leading a multi-institutional study that could help determine ways to increase the low numbers of women, in particular women of color, in college computer science programs.

Gary Gates is the Williams Institute’s inaugural Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director. This critical position at the Williams Institute was made possible by leadership gifts totaling almost $3 million by generous donors.

UCLA’s Jody Heymann and Neal Baer co-author an op-ed that shows how far countries around the world have come in advancing equality and how far they still have to go.

A comprehensive report by UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center details rights, laws and policies pertaining to gender equality in 197 countries and Beijing Platform signatories.

Influential political, business leaders and academics will gather on March 6 to discuss the region’s economic and social prospects as well as market growth.

On Sunday at the Chancellor's Residence, New York Senator and UCLA Law alumna Kirsten Gillibrand shared her personal journey in public service with UCLA Law alumnae at an event marking the official launch of a law school initiative aimed at empowering and supporting the school's women graduates.

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hope to increase the diversity of faculty by attracting high-caliber researchers and providing them with the professional development training and opportunities to help them compete for highly selective tenure-track positions.

In his latest documentary, “Bitter Honey,” UCLA anthropologist Robert Lemelson tracks the abuses suffered by wives trapped in polygamous marriages.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, a professor of law at UCLA, said My Brother’s Keeper, a program backed by President Obama, highlights one of the most significant contradictions of his efforts to remain a friend to women while navigating the tricky terrain.