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 […]
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 […]
By Sofia Riker The idea of the “male gaze” is most visually present in the film industry, where female characters are often depicted through the eyes of a man. Often, this view is overly sexual and “associated with the male protagonist’s point-of-view” (Loreck, 2016). Through camera angles and plot positioning, it has historically been made […]
By interviewing both female and male Air Force Veterans in the late 1980’s and early 1990s, I found that these first women assimilated in the masculine world of the military to rise up the ranks. They had to become “one of the boys.”
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, […]
This diagram shows seven women who changed the history of science with their incredible contributions, but who are often not recognized for them. The women on this diagram are restricted to the late 19th and 20th centuries, although the gender inequality has existed in STEM fields long before. Women are oppressed in these fields in many different ways, and I chose to highlight two of them: women face restrictions on their education and jobs, and they are not recognized for the same achievements their male colleagues are, especially historically by the Nobel committee.
If you were asked to name some of the most influential women in STEM, could you? Women in STEM have not received the same amount of recognition or respect as their male counterparts. Even worse, male collaborators have been celebrated for female’s work or neglected acknowledging female involvement in projects. Each woman in STEM has […]
