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Sexual Misconduct at Yale Highlights Negligence for Women’s Protection
The New York Times recently published an article on sexual misconduct at Yale. The article speaks on the growing concern for the amount of sexual misconduct on the campus. Suddenly, however, these episodes have the campus in a state of high alert. Yale acknowledged...
MIT Reform Brings Progress to Women in Academia, Highlights Societal Stereotypes
The New York Times recently published an article that raised the issue of women in academia, and how MIT has led the charge for increased female representation. The article highlights the progress, but it also calls attention to some unintended consequences that still...
The Paradox of Eating Healthy
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, traditionally known as food stamps, have been providing low-income families with affordable grocery assistance for years. Recently, the Nation examined the difficult reality of trying to eat healthy when...
Critical Trans Politics and Transformative Social Change
Seattle University Assistant Professor of Law Dean Spade was interviewed in this month’s issue of Guernica. Spade is the first openly transgendered tenure-track law professor in the U.S. and the founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit agency which...
The Price of Pregnancy Increases Drastically
The average cost of delivering a healthy baby in the United States is $6,378– $10,638 for a caesarian section. These numbers do not include the countless doctors’ visits and purchases the average woman makes during her pregnancy. And now the cost of a popular drug...
