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YOUR EXPERIENCE IS IMPORTANT. Please use this space to share how was your experience with HGSE as a woman before, during, and after your studies. We will include these in the petition as we believe these narratives will carry maximum weight! You can be as brief or as descriptive as you feel.

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YOUR EXPERIENCE IS IMPORTANT. Please use this space to share how was your experience with HGSE as a woman before, during, and after your studies. We will include these in the petition as we believe these narratives will carry maximum weight! You can be as brief or as descriptive as you feel.

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Note: Please indicate if you would like your testimonial to be anonymized or if you are okay with your name being put in the petition.

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How would you have liked to get supported? 

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How would you have liked to get supported? 

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Women mentors ❤️

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support for domestic violencr

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Transition to Boston from international setting 

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Transition to Boston from international setting 

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On the ground support when we moved in from a different country, example like moving-in support, community building

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International gender context in the course options

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International gender context in the course options

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I wanted to explore gender issues in south asia. There are so many South Asians here, and gender is one of the biggest issues in education in our context. But not only is there no space in coursework to discuss the geography, there is no space to discuss gender outside of E&O electives at all. I asked my advisor to connect me with people at HGSE who work on gender, and he could not name any faculty.

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Emotional/mental health support for female students at HGSE

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Emotional/mental health support for female students at HGSE

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Authentic community building during the summer term

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reoccurring meeting groups with the same women

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A space to foster genuine meaningful connections with my women peers. To interact with those whose path I may not cross in classes, extracurriculars, etc

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I would have loved some support from the administration when my visa got delayed. Instead of showing me empathy (because no one controls embassy policies and protocols) they cancelled my admission altogether. I still remember the woman who sent me the email with the snarky 'I hope you continue trying to change the world'

Ironically, it was another woman who rescued me. Dean Bridget Long told me to come because I deserved to be here. It was uplifting and empowering and we need more of that - not just from faculty, but also from administration offices.

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More intersectional resources that support women through their job search process! for example, negotiation strategies!

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Roundtables on women leadership within education sector

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Roundtables on women leadership within education sector

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I would have liked to see more coaching and mentorship at HGSE

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Women leadership mentors

Salary negotiation

Equitable practices in ed to empower womxn intentionally and support us as career women

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I wish I felt more welcomed as a woman, first gen leader it felt very generic and everything moves so fast

I wish there were more spaces to share experiences and get coached as a leader, a woman of color, an immigrant

I wish women leaders and professors at Hgse held spaces for us to share experiences and hold space to communicate about it

I wish the support wasn’t so generic

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Examples of women alumni who have succeeded in typically male fields, more data on past classes saying how the majority of students seem to be female, support in running households which end up on the women to do, support for actual skill building

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I would like to see courses, mentorship, and programs that specifically support women’s leadership. It feels like there is a real gap in the programming here, just because we are majority women here doesn’t mean that our experiences are uplifted or supported. -Najma

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We need more resources for women’s mental health

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I came publicly to ask HGSE for help and hugs to comfort my pains and trying time . I got most support from men. Change starts with us. Women Loving Women . Practically. Intentionally. Community.

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(there is no concrete evidence for this) friendly competition between schools is fine, but sometimes I feel like schools that have a higher proportion of males like HBS and HKS look down on schools like HGSE and the health school under the guise of school competition but a lot of the time it’s just internalised misogyny

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I went through the most bitter housing experiences in the fall semester. As a women, I felt extremely vulnerable knowing how uncertainty of housing was harming me and my academics throughout the fall. Most of the Women at HGSE connected with me at that time and checked up on me during that difficult time. These kind of initiatives that you plan on introducing seem to provide an optimistic hope and safe space for future Girls joining HGSE. 

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I went through the most bitter housing experiences in the fall semester. As a women, I felt extremely vulnerable knowing how uncertainty of housing was harming me and my academics throughout the fall. Most of the Women at HGSE connected with me at that time and checked up on me during that difficult time. These kind of initiatives that you plan on introducing seem to provide an optimistic hope and safe space for future Girls joining HGSE. 

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The career fairs are mainly for work as school teachers. If HGSE has different programs, the organizations contacted should be more diverse, too.

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Support for mothers at HGSE. Timely sharing of knowledge about resources and opportunities especially for people who have to navigate this space for the first time in their lives.

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improve the advising experience with faculty

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improve the advising experience with faculty

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I would love to see more women care