Gender | Diversity & Inclusion

The Virus Moved Female Faculty to the Brink. Will Universities Help?

in Coronavirus, Diversity, Equity, Gender, Higher Education, Inclusion

The pandemic is a new setback for women in academia who already faced obstacles on the path to advancing their research and careers.

What Does It Mean to Be Latinx? For Some, It’s the ‘One Term That Gives Everyone a Home’

in Culture, Diversity, Gender, Inclusion, Intersectionality, Race & Ethnicity

By the 1980s, the use of ‘Latina/o’ emerged to describe the more diverse ethnic and racial fabric of people known as ‘Hispanic.’ But for some, that descriptor still falls short of inclusive, as the male/female gender binary of the Spanish language can leave out those who identify as nonbinary. Enter one of the most controversial […]

RBG’s Greatest Insight

in Access, Allyship, Culture, Diversity, Equity, Gender, Higher Education, Inclusion, Intersectionality, Religion

The justice understood that the two great principles of American democracy—equality and liberty—are not at odds, but rather integral to each other.

Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down

in Allyship, Culture, Diversity, Equity, Gender, Inclusion, Intersectionality

She could have had President Obama nominate her successor. But she didn’t get to the Supreme Court by letting other people tell her what she could do.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Great Equalizer

in Culture, Diversity, Equity, Gender, Inclusion, Intersectionality

How a scholar, advocate, and judge upended the entirety of American political thought.

Winning the Right to Vote Was the Work of Many Lifetimes

in Access, Diversity, Equity, Gender, Inclusion

It took generations of women — mothers and daughters, leaders and followers — to secure the 19th Amendment.

For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword

in Access, Diversity, Gender, Inclusion, Intersectionality, Race & Ethnicity

Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights.

You’ve Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?

in Allyship, Diversity, Equity, Gender, Inclusion, LGBTQIA+, Race & Ethnicity, Religion

As a person who wants to be a good ally to your colleagues of color and members of underrepresented groups, how do you apologize after you’ve committed a microaggression? And what’s the best way to ensure that you do better in the future?

100 Years of Suffrage: A century after women’s suffrage, the fight for equality isn’t over.

in Access, Equity, Gender, Inclusion

Women struggled for decades to win the right to vote, but it’s taken even longer for all to be able to exercise it.

I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.

in Allyship, Community, Culture, Disability, Diversity, Gender, Inclusion, Intersectionality, LGBTQIA+, Race & Ethnicity, Religion

There are better ways of doing social justice work.