NOW IS THE TIME TO DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT MISSION.

Right now, the world is emerging from a pandemic that deeply and disproportionately affected women. According to research, between February and August 2020, American mothers of children aged 12 and under lost 2.2 million jobs compared to 870,000 lost by fathers. At the same time, working mothers reported seeing their daily work increase significantly more than fathers, as women bore extra childcare responsibilities when schools shut down.

The result:

This is far too long. At Wesleyan, we want to see gender parity in our lifetimes. To make this happen, the world needs the expertise of an educational institution that has specialized in accelerating equality for women for nearly 200 years.