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What the ‘doctor’ title means for women of color with doctorates

Staff Writer - January 18, 2021

Cecilia E. Suarez, University of Florida and Robyn Hannigan, Clarkson University Editor’s note: In a Dec. 11 Wall Street Journal op-ed, conservative author Joseph Epstein...

Education

What the ‘doctor’ title means for women of color with doctorates

Staff Writer - January 8, 2021

Cecilia E. Suarez, University of Florida and Robyn Hannigan, Clarkson University Editor’s note: In a Dec. 11 Wall Street Journal op-ed, conservative author Joseph Epstein...

Art

In 2020, TV and film still couldn’t get abortion right

Staff Writer - January 4, 2021

Stephanie Herold, University of California, San Francisco and Gretchen Sisson, University of California, San Francisco According to decades of research, abortion is an incredibly common...

Education

How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights

Staff Writer - December 25, 2020

Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...

Art

In ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and beyond, chess holds up a mirror...

Staff Writer - December 8, 2020

Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at...

Art

Why it’s important to see women as capable … of terrible...

Staff Writer - November 20, 2020

Jessica Trisko Darden, American University School of International Service and Izabela Steflja, Tulane University Born in 1593, Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman...

culture

Why gender reveals have spiraled out of control

Staff Writer - September 14, 2020

Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago Over Labor Day weekend, two expectant parents didn’t get the viral hit they had hoped for. During a gender reveal party...