The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/gender_equality/)
The Steminist Movement brings application-based STEM activities to local middle school girls, introducing them to STEM subjects early to inspire their future career aspirations.
Megan Guefen ’19 is a part of Rowing Oceans for Women, a team aiming to break the record for the fastest all-women team to cross the Pacific Ocean.
Xian Wang, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, to explore the exploitation of Chinese women during World War II as part of the series hosted by the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative, themed “Engendering China.”
Amid the new challenges that online learning present, is the issue of balancing childcare with academic work.
At a talk on Thursday evening, Gloria Feldt discussed the societal progress in gender equality and women’s rights that occurred over the course of her career.
We must commend the College of Engineering for achieving gender parity in its enrollment. The engineering college is the last of Cornell’s constituent parts to reach parity, and in doing so, it positions itself as a national leader among institutions of higher education. We hope that our peer colleges take note of the decades-long concerted effort undertaken by Cornell to achieve this milestone; parity neither happened overnight nor on its own. Because things need to change. Somehow, in the year of our lord 2018, women only make up 22.9 percent of engineering students nationwide.
Though Women’s Day has been marked off the 2017 calendar, the University still has a ways to go in terms of gender equality.
Few Americans were aware of sex discrimination in the 1950s, and even now, not many have fully grasped its scope in society, both in our country and beyond, according to Sonia Pressman Fuentes ’50. Fuentes, a feminist, lawyer and author spoke at Myron Taylor Hall yesterday about her experience fighting against sex discrimination. She was the first female attorney for the Office of the General Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and co-founder of the National Organization of Women.