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Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street
With her delicate features, blue eyes, and blonde hair, Carrie Preston could double as a porcelain doll, but she hardly handles life with kid gloves. Halfway through an early morning lecture on The...
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Helping Women in India without Leaving Boston
When Eileen O’Keefe signed on to lead a women’s health study in Gujarat, India, she knew she’d face a few challenges. Conducting a survey in a foreign language was one; navigating different cultural...
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An Unconventional OB/GYN
Like many newly minted physicians, Ashish Premkumar dreams of becoming the next Paul Farmer, the globe-trotting physician and medical anthropologist who founded Partners In Health. The difference is...
View ArticleStudents Welcome Gender Neutral Housing
University officials braced for pushback from BU parents after the announcement last month that the University was introducing gender neutral housing, allowing students to choose roommates of the...
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BU Now Offers Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Certificate
BU has launched a new certificate program in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (WGS) to provide an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students interested in these studies. “Across the nation,...
View ArticleBU Research: A Riddle Reveals Depth of Gender Bias
Here’s an old riddle. If you haven’t heard it, give yourself time to answer before reading past this paragraph: a father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the...
View ArticleReliving a Pivotal Decade in Women’s Liberation
Deborah Belle suspected that the time was right to take a scholarly look at the US women’s liberation movement from the 1960s to the 1970s and weigh the legacy of those times, but last year when she...
View ArticlePOV: Expanding the Definition of Women at Women’s Colleges
In August, Mills College, in Oakland, Calif., announced that it would accept applications from any student who self-identifies as a woman, regardless of her sex or gender assignment at birth, becoming...
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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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