by admin | Mar 16, 2017 | Featured, Gender
Children learn from a very young age what is expected of them based on their gender. Their young, impressionable minds are highly receptive to the gender stereotypes that exist within advertisements, books, toys, television shows, video games, and apparel....
by admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured, Opinion
If we want to achieve gender equality, we must continually examine the unfair laws, policies, and practices that keep us from achieving this feat. Take “ladies’ night,” for example. Ladies’ night is the perfect example of a policy that keeps the sexism...
by admin | Apr 17, 2015 | Equality, Gender, News, Women's Rights
While Hillary Clinton’s announcement last Sunday of her 2016 presidential run may not be particularly surprising, the amount of support she’s already gathered is. Even key figures on the opposite side of the aisle are coming out in favor of Clinton as president,...
by admin | Nov 17, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, News, Women's Rights
By now you may have heard about TIME Magazine’s annual word-banning poll. It’s the magazine’s fourth annual word banishment poll, and includes words and phrases such as “basic,” “bossy,” “said no one ever,” “sorry not sorry,” and “feminist.” If you examined this poll...
by admin | Jul 9, 2014 | Equality, Gender, News, Women's Rights
Verizon recently released a new commercial that depicts what can happen to a girl’s self-esteem if she’s only valued for her appearance. It’s a compelling ad that is made more so by the inclusion of one troubling statistic: according to the National Science...
