| Gender Roles | What role does gender play in forming our identity? |
Sometimes change begins with just one person noticing a problem and deciding to take action. Meet an educator who is working to ensure their impact empowers more voices for change.
Learn how the voice of Marian Anderson made a lasting impact in the history of music and Civil Rights.
| Across the world, women are making groundbreaking strides in science and technology. This growing movement challenges outdated norms, celebrates innovation, and empowers next generation women to shape the future of STEM. |
Have you ever made a great discovery, only for someone else to take the credit? That’s what happened to these women in science.
Caregiving isn’t just a job for nurses or a role traditionally assigned to women, it’s becoming a responsibility that more and more men are stepping up to take on. So, what does it really take to balance it all, and how can society better support these caregivers?
Researchers and academics search for the answer to this question and offer varying theories.
Blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Or are they? Read about how the colors associated with gender have changed over time.
Gender, age, and socioeconomic status play a part in how well someone performs in school. Read about the complicated and layered issue “redshirting” could help solve.
In this article, 17-year-old science student Sara Sakowitz shares her experience being a girl who loves science.
A Band of Brothers is an organization in England that pairs troubled male teenagers with older men living in the same community to provide positive role models.
Read about Alok Vaid-Menon’s thoughts about gender and gender deconstruction.
An innovative New York City program seeks to protect girls from developing a negative body image.
Men and women are still not guaranteed equal rights in the U.S. Constitution Read about concrete actions which thought leaders suggest we take in order to achieve equality.
Researchers have discovered that COVID-19 fears tend to be split along gender binary lines.
Parental leave policies are largely not distributed equally along gender lines. Read about the people looking to change that.
While people may not typically look to the 13th-century medieval texts for shining examples of equitable representation, an old text about a knight in shining armor inspired author Alex Myers.
Why do boys want to play with trucks, while girls prefer dolls? Are these stereotypes that our society forces on children, or are such preferences innate? This article explores those very questions.
Stella Keating, the youngest transgender person to testify in front of the US Senate, spoke with Dr. Jill Biden about her advocacy surrounding transgender and non-binary youth.
Although the current pandemic has disrupted the way parents work, childcare duties still often fell to women.
Is it better to acknowledge differences in gender or ignore those differences entirely? Read about the pros and cons of gender blindness, and how the ideal approach may be a delicate mix of both gender awareness and gender blindness.
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