The La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Women’s Studies Research Center have developed a partnership to apply the academic talent and energy of faculty and students to public policy issues that relate to the status of women. These two units at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to conduct research, develop policy options and recommendations, stimulate public discussion and debate, and disseminate the findings of studies. Whenever possible and appropriate, the La Follette School and the Women’s Studies Research Center work with governmental and private agencies to inform efforts to improve the status of women, locally, nationally, and internationally.

Wisconsin Women in Government Seminar

Wisconsin Women in Government collaborates with the La Follette School of Public Affairs to present a graduate seminar of management training to women managers in the public and private sectors. The goal is to help mid-level managers acquire the skills they need to move into positions of leadership.

Wisconsin Women = Prosperity Project

The La Follette School faculty and students contributed research and public service to Wisconsin Women = Prosperity, a non-partisan, statewide initiative directed by Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton to improve the status of women and to drive economic growth for Wisconsin by increasing the success of women. The Lt. Government's Task Force on Women and Depression, 2005-06, was an outcome of Wisconsin Women = Prosperity. It involved La Follette faculty and students.