Listen to the podcast here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TGbjKG8foN6E_qG34BRm2_upuR-tT1Cj/view?usp=sharing It’s no secret that men have long dominated the STEM field, and some of the field’s leading female pioneers were robbed of the recognition they deserved. Take Rosalind Franklin, an excellent wet-lab chemist. She took the first clear X-ray fiber diffraction photo of DNA, which James Watson and Francis […]
As hospitals have become busier in recent years, physician-led labor has replaced midwife-led labor. Today, midwives are only present at 12% of US births (OSHU 2020). With the prioritization of safe medical practices, present-day society has traded woman-centered approaches to childbirth, like midwifery, for more sterile medical approaches (Sandall et al. 2010). The busy hospital […]
Caitlin Clark is reshaping the landscape of women’s basketball. Leading her Iowa Hawkeyes team to the championship game of the popular March Madness tournament in two consecutive years and breaking dozens of records along the way, Clark has grown the women’s game in unprecedented ways. Through what has been deemed as the “Caitlin Clark Effect,” […]
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA, 2013) was established to protect minorities in the workforce. Transgender employees, however, continue to report job loss due to their gender identity. Within the last five years, many trans people have described the many ways their employers have forced them out of employment while avoiding the consequences of the Employment […]
Despite having over 82 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Taylor Swift has found herself needing to prove her talent over and over again as she struggles to be taken seriously as a female songwriter and musician. This is not just an issue faced by Swift. Women in the workplace are held to a different standard […]
For women, deciding to have sex involves much more than the physical act itself. Their decision also includes the use of contraception and the best way to protect themselves and their partner against unwanted pregnancies. Finding what forms of contraception work for their bodies can be a complex, confusing, and exhausting process of trial-and-error. In […]
To many, New York City seems the perfect cosmopolitan city: one defined by diversity and opportunity. But in reality, the history of segregation in the city remains very much alive. City dwellers “live together,” but they live apart – entire neighborhoods, institutions, and schools tend to be dominated by a certain race and socioeconomic class. […]
It’s no secret that beauty products are expensive. According to Business Insider, the beauty industry was worth $532 billion in 2019. Magazine ads use appealing images and seemingly empowering language to say: buy our expensive product and you, too, will be enough. Such popular imaging sets the standards that women compare themselves to. So how […]
Pictured above: 1950’s posters for boy scouts and girl scouts by Normal Rockwell. Put together here in a collage to show the seriousness portrayed by BSA compared to GSUSA’s more playful attitude. There is a reason why the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) have had a century-long identity crisis on their […]
By: Jocelyn Spencer I wanted this collage to reflect some of the common unrealistic expectations (hence the title of the piece) placed on women, which are reinforced through messages on social media. A woman isn’t supposed be too skinny, but she also shouldn’t be too fat. A woman is supposed to show a little skin, […]
