Just Say Yes…To Sexist Stereotyping?
May 10, 2012 by Katherine Stewart · 17 Comments
From the Ms. Editors: Despite doubts about the efficacy of abstinence-only sex education, U.S. tax dollars are still funding it. Conservatives earmarked $250 million for such programs under the ...Read More
The Anti-Abortion Game of Life
May 5, 2012 by Sofia Resnick · 2 Comments
To bring down the high chlamydia infections rate among Tennessee teenagers, an anti-abortion pregnancy center in Athens, Tenn., has proposed spending federal tax dollars on a life-sized version of ...Read More
Girls in Pearls, Guys in Ties?
February 17, 2012 by Avital Norman Nathman · 26 Comments
A Virginia school district is currently considering a new type of clothing ban that would impact more than 14,000 students. While most schools across the country do tend to have some sort of dress ...Read More
10 Things You Need to Know About Native American Women
February 5, 2012 by Laura Paskus · 10 Comments
It’s no exaggeration to say that American Indian women are missing from most media coverage, history books and classroom discussions. But at least journalism students, instructors and state educators ...Read More
Women–And Men–Aren’t “Born” Teachers
December 23, 2011 by Ashley Lauren Samsa · 4 Comments
When I was younger, I asked my mom why she decided to become a teacher. Aside from the obvious factors–she liked working with kids, she wanted to help students learn, she had a passion for teaching–she ...Read More
The Myth of the “Girl Brain”
December 15, 2011 by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett · 15 Comments
Has your local public school opened up a new all-girls classroom? Are you tempted to enroll your daughter in it? After all, the principal may have offered up impressive evidence that girls learn ...Read More
Behind the Koala Mask
November 21, 2011 by Jessica Mulqueen · 7 Comments
The California Faculty Association, one of the biggest and most powerful faculty unions in the nation, recently passed a resolution [PDF] to condemn the aggressive distribution and hate speech in ...Read More
To Get Hate Speech Off Campus, Cal State Students Wield Title IX
November 14, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 4 Comments
In an ongoing student battle against a hate-filled tabloid, The Koala, that has been causing uproar on three Cal State campuses since January, Cal State San Marcos students have now filed a Title ...Read More
Penn State Community Rallies in Support of Victims
November 13, 2011 by Anna Clark · 1 Comment
Why does the Penn State community cheer for Joe Paterno? We’ve seen nearly a week’s worth of rallying in support of the legendary football coach after a grand jury indictment made plain that ...Read More
How Students at Historically Black Colleges Drove the Mississippi “Personhood” Defeat
November 10, 2011 by Francesca Witcher · 6 Comments
When I was asked to come to Mississippi about three weeks ago to organize students against Initiative 26, or the so-called “personhood” amendment, I honestly did not know if we even had a chance ...Read More
