This program is co-hosted with Ms. Magazine.

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Register here for March 2026’s 12:30-1:30pm ET Program

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Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph. D, is Professor and Chair, Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Sylvia D’Lugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, Smith College, Northampton, MA. In addition to being both a professor and lawyer, Dr. Baker is an excellent prolific feminist journalist and Contributing editor at Ms. Magazine. Her most recent book is Abortion Pills: U.S. History and Politics (Amherst College Press 2024), available open access. Dr. Baker has been writing for Ms. since 2010 and is co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars. She is hosting a Ms. Writers Workshop at Smith this summer to train feminist scholars for the popular press.

Dr. Baker will review threats to women’s rights from the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress and state legislatures and the Heritage Foundation. She will cover topics ranging from reproductive rights and voting to family and economic rights. She will also discuss the ongoing campaign for recognition of the fully ratified federal ERA and feminists’ innovative strategies to use state ERAs as tools for expanding women’s rights. In covering many overt as well as subtle threats, Dr. Baker will share her views on the most disturbing threats as well as ways to counteract them.

Dr. Baker is extremely well informed and will welcome questions and suggestions from the program participants on how we can overcome backsliding, use the current crisis as an opportunity to push for expanded rights for women, and create a democratic society with full implementation of women’s rights.