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A Changing Landscape for Women in Academic Science
Women looking for equal pay, recognition for hard work, and career advancement might be wise to study engineering, mathematics, or computer science. The idea seems contradictory, considering frequent...
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Calculating Gender Pay Equity
There’s not one country in the world where women earn the same wages as men. When it comes to ranking the best (Rwanda, for what it’s worth) to worst (Angola) in terms of gender wage equality, the...
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One Class, One Day: Motherhood
Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of articles about visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building...
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Tackling the Wage Gap with Code
Payroll data for 112,600 area employees reveals that women working in greater Boston make just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to a new report from the Boston Women’s Workforce...
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Second BU Play It Forward Summit Tackles Race and Gender
It’s no surprise that racism and misogyny crop up in stadiums and ballparks as much as anywhere else in America today. “Sports are a microcosm of the rest of society,” says Kevin Merida (COM’79), ESPN...
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One Class, One Day: Are You Man Enough? (And What Does That Mean?)
Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU....
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Sexism in the Harvey Weinstein Era
It’s impossible to ignore the fact that our politics is soaking in sexism, from allegations of harassment and worse by politicians to males’ dominance in high office. But at the student body level?...
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All-Female Julius Caesar Calls to Friends, Romans, Countrywomen
It’s been said often, especially since the last presidential election: If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have all these problems. But Bryn Boice (CFA’16), says that ain’t necessarily so, at least not...
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A Performance at the Intersection of Theater and Activism
Nicole Rizzo’s play about sexual trauma inspired by Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues debuts tonight, and the timing is right. As the #MeToo movement exposes the breadth of sexual violence and harassment...
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What Transgender Means to Me
An estimated 1.4 million Americans identify as transgender—a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Now the Trump administration is considering a plan that would define a person’s...
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