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Gatekeeping Power: The Case for Desegregating Male-Exclusive Fraternities

January 22, 2021 660 Views 0 Comments exclusive, fraternity, gatekeepers, segregation

In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka struck down racial segregation as unconstitutional. The understanding that moved the

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This Thanksgiving, Decolonize Your Bookshelf: A Reading List of Native American Women

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 333 Views 0 Comments books, native american women, native americans, representation

Every year, as the leaves turn and the temperature drops, school children across the United States learn the story of

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The Room Where it Happens: Women in Democratic Politics in the United States

October 19, 2020 910 Views 0 Comments democrats, politics, power, quotas

To the outsider, it may appear that a long-delayed reckoning with sexism is finally occurring within the Democratic party. In

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Technology’s impingement on the urban female sanitation worker in India

July 29, 2020July 30, 2020 807 Views 0 Comments India, sanitation, technology, urban

While three-fourths of the world’s population has access to a basic sanitation service, only about half of the world’s population

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More Than a Numbers Game: Gender Quotas in Africa’s Parliaments

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 697 Views 0 Comments Africa, parliament, politics, quota

2020 MARKS THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a seminal moment when world leaders committed

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The Indian Ban on Commercial Surrogacy

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 4527 Views 0 Comments India, ivf, surrogacy

  Introduction The usage of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has grown immensely around the world, and future increases are expected.[i]

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It’s Time for a U.S. Feminist Foreign Policy

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 1314 Views 1 Comment feminism, foreign policy, pandemic, United States

  Women leaders around the world are being disproportionately recognized for their skilled responses to the coronavirus crisis. These women

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COVID-19: Making Visible the Invisible Survivor

June 2, 2020 911 Views 0 Comments crisis response, domestic violence, mental health, pandemic, public health

  The COVID-19 pandemic has left more than half of humanity confined to their homes. Governments have asked and, in

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Solitary Confinement is Torture, Not Protection

March 5, 2020 628 Views 0 Comments asylum, Central America, criminal justice, LGBTQ+, mental health, Mexico, migrants

  Ellie,[1] a young trans woman from Central America, sits across a small table from me in blue men’s scrubs,

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Toward an LGBTQ+ Inclusive History Curriculum in Massachusetts

February 12, 2020 981 Views 0 Comments education, LGBTQ+, mental health, representation

  In my senior year of high school, I spent months gathering everything I could find on LGBTQ+ history for

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