Sexism

LTE: Open Letter to Northwestern Leadership and Community on Cheer Team Incidents

February 15, 2021

To President Schapiro, Provost Hagerty, and the Northwestern community, As women Northwestern faculty, we are dispirited and angry to hear of the recent allegations of racist and sexist practices on...

Nevo: Treat cheerleaders fairly.

February 11, 2021

The Super Bowl may have marked the end of the NFL season, but we should not stop talking about football, and more specifically, cheerleading. In fact, a lawsuit against the University, and numerous unresolved...

Borrok: The storm rages on

October 29, 2020

At the end of the summer, I spent some time on the East Coast, where I stayed in a house right on the beach. After days of relaxation, a storm rolled in from the shore, the sky darkened and the wind picked...

Fine: How Russian literature helped me understand sexism in McCormick

January 7, 2020

I’ve never been directly confronted and told that I should not be studying engineering because of my gender. There was no big, dramatic incident of sexism that caused me to begin to feel unwelcome in...

Political frustrations lead students to vote for more women, minorities

October 31, 2018

Ahead of the November midterm elections, Daily reporters are speaking to voters about issues they’ll take to the polls. In this article, students and Evanston residents take on the complexity of women...

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