Filomina Clarice Steady

Steady was born in Sierra Leone,[1] studied in England, and currently lives in the US.[2]

She has a bachelor's degree from Smith College, a master's degree from Boston University, and a PhD from Oxford University.[3][2]

Steady worked as a professor and as the director of women's studies at the California State University, Sacramento.[3] In 1992, she took a career break from from the university to work as a senior advisor on women and gender at the United Nations.[3] She later worked at Wellesley College where she now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Africana Studies.[2]

Steady is noted for her work demonstrating the connections between racism and sexism,[1] and for advocating for "humanistic feminism" that includes the rights and needs of children as well as women.[4]

• An investigative framework for gender research in Africa in the new millennium. In African gender studies a reader. 2005, New York: Palgrave[5]
• The Black Woman Cross-Culturally, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870733468[6]
• Women and Collective Action in Africa, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1403970831[2]
• Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, 2011, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870471209[2]
• Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State, 2011, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-0230338128[2]

• CV hosted by University of Wellesley