Tag: women
In the 1600s Hester Pulter wondered, ‘Why must I forever be...
Samantha Snively, University of California, Davis
In 1996, a graduate student named Mark Robson was creating a digital catalog of the University of Leeds’ Brotherton...
How one ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster won out over all the...
Sarah Myers, Saint Francis University and G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University
Seventy-five years ago, Norman Rockwell’s painting of Rosie the Riveter appeared on the...
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...
Very few women oversee US companies. Here’s how to change that
Yannick Thams, Suffolk University; Bari Bendell, Suffolk University, and Siri Terjesen, American University
Women’s participation in the labor force has soared over the past 50...
Why you should vote for a woman in 2018
Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University and Amy Steigerwalt, Georgia State University
This year, women are poised to make great gains in congressional representation.
Across the country,...
Why Trump’s plan to forbid spouses of H-1B visa holders to...
Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
On Dec. 14, the Trump administration announced a regulatory change that would strip spouses of high-skilled foreign workers...
Most mass killers are men who have also attacked family
Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
What do most mass killers have in common?
As a researcher who studies coercive control in intimate...
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,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
