Women in National Security

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Women continue to be significantly underrepresented across all sectors of the contemporary national security landscape. This course addresses this disparity by providing students the opportunity to engage deeply with women engaged in prominent national security roles across a range of expertise areas and disciplines. Weekly speakers will share their personal stories and experiences and offer perspectives on addressing pressing national security issues of our time, ranging from great power competition to cybersecurity to refugees and migration. Speakers will also discuss the intersection of women's rights and security and the challenges of achieving enduring peace when rights and liberties are not afforded equally to women. This course is an initiative of WINS (Women in National Security) at Stanford's Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.