Tag: Gender
The case for boosting WNBA player salaries
Nancy Lough, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
As someone who has studied the WNBA for years, I’ve been excited to witness, over the course of...
Sex and gender diversity is growing across the US
Georgiann Davis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Across the United States, more people of all ages are identifying as something other than male or female.
According...
The ideal female body type is getting even harder to attain
Frances Bozsik, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Brooke L. Bennett, University of Hawaii
Day after day, we’re bombarded with so many media messages that rarely...
What about young men who are having unwanted sex?
Jessie Ford, New York University
Time Magazine recently featured “The Silence Breakers” as its 2017 “Person of the Year,” a nod to the countless women...
Child marriage is still legal in the US
Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas
The recent outrage over Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore allegedly targeting teenage girls for sex has elicited reports that...
In America’s sandwiches, the story of a nation
Paul Freedman, Yale University; Andrew P. Haley, The University of Southern Mississippi; Imogene L. Lim, Vancouver Island University; Ken Albala, University of the Pacific,...
Scandals at Uber and Fox show dangers of letting macho cultures...
Bert Spector, Northeastern University
Most of us have probably seen the video of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick scolding one of his own drivers,...
From generations of infidelity and pain, Beyoncé makes ‘Lemonade’
Naeemah Clark, Elon University
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. But apparently a woman scorned is also the foundation of a creative tour...
EXPLORING NATURE
How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism
Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University
When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival...
