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 […]
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.”
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 […]
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.
