News

Related Discipline Areas

Departments and Programs

Media Source

Byline

Interdisciplinary

Conference to examine health of American democracy

4/10/2018 Center for the Study of Inequality

In the face of rising economic inequality, political polarization, the expansion of presidential powers over those of Congress, and the resurgence of white supremacy and white nationalism, many commentators have claimed that American democracy is under threat.

Sociology

Analysis finds strong consensus on gender transition treatment effectiveness

4/9/2018 Center for the Study of Inequality

A new analysis conducted by researchers at the What We Know Project (WWKP), an initiative of Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), reviewed more than twenty-five years of scholarship on transgender mental health and found a strong consensus that undergoing gender transition can improve transgender well-being.