...anything involving them: “It is not an accident that all women who write for Salon are either hot, or formerly hot,” wrote a commenter on a piece I penned there...
...What would a better system of higher education look like? "Thy life is a flitting state, a tent for the night." Our political vocabulary has never been geared towards...
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
...Emily Davies, the principal founder of Girton College, the first women’s college at Cambridge, was understandably zealous about promoting higher education for women. Thus, she insisted that all of her...
...I feel awkward around women. Now, that’s speaking in some pretty general terms—certainly I don’t feel awkward around every woman, or comfortable around every man. It’s more that accurately or...
...Bogota, Colombia. Riot police after being attacked with paint bombs by protesting students and teachers in a march for the defense of public education. Photo: Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty |...
...little-known at the time, Bitch. “I notice there are no women’s magazines on that list,” she said. (Bitch is indeed a magazine about and largely for women, but it’s hardly...
...and girls after passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. (Participation still isn’t equal, it’s worth noting.) But if you say the word athlete, most people will...
...have gained popularity, the history of their development, and especially the role of women in this history, has been largely forgotten. In jellyfish husbandry, women tinkerers leveraged perceptions of their...
...If you were to build a 21st century public education system from scratch, the teacher’s role would undoubtedly be quite different. You don’t have the same cheap women’s labor, but...
...and Constitutional Rights that the millions of SATs, ACTs, and PSATs taken each year created systemic bias against women in higher education. As Rosser argued in her Congressional testimony, if...
...underfunding of nursing research and education, and encourage children to associate nursing with low-status “women’s work.” Along with educating the public about nursing’s important role in health care delivery, The...
...published a highly controversial report on cyberviolence against women and girls alerting the global community to the global scale of online abuse. The report was released shortly after #GamerGate ,...