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 […]
Elizabeth Holmes, depicted through a mosaic of historical and current-day female scientists, all from the Association for Women in Science. Silicon Valley is often described as a “boy’s club” or a “brotopia” (Grybos 2023) where success stories such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos who started coding in humble garages are broadcast worldwide […]
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,” […]
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 […]
This art piece represents the balancing act female athletes face in their two worlds on campus: one of sports and one of gendered conditioning. Female athletes live in two vastly contrasting worlds, one of sports and one of gendered conditioning (Krane 2004). They must exercise peak strength and endurance while simultaneously appearing feminine to comply […]
When I was eight years old, I started training as a competitive rhythmic gymnast. As the only girl of color on a team composed exclusively of Russian members, I faced a constant struggle for acceptance. I was called unkind words like “kakashki”, which means poop in Russian by my teammates and was even told by […]
Why do we know the name and story of Simone Biles but not Maggie Nichols, Mana Shim, or Sinead Farrelly?
As hard as it is to believe, despite recent movements towards gender equality in sports, news coverage on woman peaked in the 1950s and has since decreased.1 When comparing recent Sports Illustrated covers featuring males versus females, there are many disparities. The covers of males typically show a male athlete, team, or coach being celebrated […]
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 […]
