Search Results for: women education

...expertise amidst their limited occupational opportunities. Linking prevailing expectations for women with knowledge of human physiology, the first decades of physical education instruction sought to transform women’s lives but also...

...By Abby Norman Discrimination toward women in the medical arts can be traced back to the story of Agnodice. Some scholars argue that she was not a real person,...

...portrayal of scientists in films. The longitudinal study examined STEM characters in film and television and found that men, specifically white men, vastly outnumber women almost 2 to 1. The...

...workers as irredeemable predators. To them, the industry posed such a lethal danger to society that the only solution was eradication. However, once women began organizing into reform societies devoted...

...and Gynecology” that the Pill was still “safe within the intent of the legislation.” Although women contributed to the Nelson hearings as experts and as protesters, sexist gender norms about...

...to handle advanced education. In Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls, Clarke argued that subjecting women to higher education—especially in programs where women would be educated...

...psychiatric medical treatment for women. From the first diagnosis of hysteria to the present-day disparities in mental health treatment, the tradition of medicating women’s emotions has held constant. Within this...