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==Wellesley Centers for Women==
The [[Wellesley Centers for Women]] (WCW) is one of the largest [[gender]]-focused [[social science]] research-and-action organizations in the United States.<ref name="ncrw">{{cite web |url=http://www.ncrw.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981212031257/http://www.ncrw.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1998-12-12 |title=Home &#124; Re:Gender |publisher=Ncrw.org |date=2015-10-20 |access-date=2015-11-21 }}</ref>  Located on and nearby the Wellesley College campus, WCW was established when the Center for Research on Women (founded 1974) and the Stone Center for Development Services and Studies at Wellesley College (founded 1981) merged into a single organization in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title = Wellesley Centers for Women About us {{!}} About us Extra Information {{!}} About us|url = https://www.wcwonline.org/About-us-Extra-Information/about-us|website = Wcwonline.org|access-date = 2015-10-27|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151026233606/http://www.wcwonline.org/About-us-Extra-Information/about-us|archive-date = October 26, 2015|url-status = live}}</ref> It is home to several prominent American feminist scholars, including [[Jean Kilbourne]] and [[Peggy McIntosh]]. The current executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women is Layli Maparyan. Since 1974, the Wellesley Centers for Women has produced over 200 scholarly articles and over 100 books.<ref>{{cite web|title = Wellesley Centers for Women Fast Facts {{!}} About us Extra Information {{!}} About us|url = https://www.wcwonline.org/About-us-Extra-Information/fast-facts|website = Wcwonline.org|access-date = 2015-10-27|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151122053745/https://www.wcwonline.org/About-us-Extra-Information/fast-facts|archive-date = November 22, 2015|url-status = live}}</ref>

The Wellesley Centers for Women has five key areas of research: education, economic security, mental health, youth and adolescent development, and gender-based violence.  WCW is also home to long-standing and highly successful action programs that engage in curriculum development and training, professional development, evaluation, field building, and theory building. Those programs include the National SEED Project, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Open Circle, the [[Jean Baker Miller]] Training Institute, and ''Women's Review of Books.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wcwonline.org/Projects/topics-list |title=Research &#124; Wellesley Centers for Women |access-date=February 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709014258/https://www.wcwonline.org/Projects/topics-list |archive-date=July 9, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>