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30 avril 2016

Universities with 'cooperative culture' can help women thrive

By Matthew Reisz. Paper explores the emotional costs for women of working in ultra-competitive environments. More...

30 avril 2016

One female scientist on a team could be 'worse than none'

By John Elmes. Number of women in high performance computing and science in general is worryingly low, says scholar who leads group for female academics in her field. More...

28 avril 2016

How colleges are welcoming LGBT students

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. Growing up in the Nashville suburb of Spring Hill, Tennessee, 20-year-old Elizabeth Roten always felt self-conscious of the fact that she identified as queer. More...

28 avril 2016

Shut the door on Harvard’s all-male clubs

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. Harvard seems poised to take a major step toward cracking down on sexual assaults on its undergraduate campus by forcing its all-male social clubs to admit women. More...

28 avril 2016

Transgender college students at higher risk for suicide attempts

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. Transgender university and college students are at a significantly higher risk for suicide attempts when their campus experience includes being denied access to bathrooms and gender-appropriate campus housing, a Georgia State University study finds. More...

27 avril 2016

Why women's workspaces are a feminist issue

The Guardian homeBy. A visitor told me it was unprofessional to pin up family photos at work, so I started researching how women feel about their office spaces. More...

27 avril 2016

Bullying linked to gender and sexuality often goes unchecked in schools

The ConversationBy . While the program faces continuing malicious attacks from the right, many Australians have been thrust into a discussion that invokes the idea of “the gay agenda”, sexuality recruitment and indoctrination about sexuality and gender. More...

27 avril 2016

What’s the backlash against gender-neutral bathrooms all about?

The ConversationBy . Transgender students’ access to bathrooms is an increasingly active front for LGBTQ rights battles. Recent calls for safer bathrooms have inspired “shit-ins” at California Polytechnic and San Diego State, where transgender advocates asked student allies to use only gender-neutral restrooms. In April last year, “urine” blockades confronted Berkeley students at Sather Gate, the main entrance to campus. More...

26 avril 2016

When do children develop their gender identity?

The ConversationBy . Gender is generally thought of as a stable trait: we are born male or female and we stay that way as we grow from small children to adults. More...

25 avril 2016

Transgender Students, Bathroom Access and Suicide

HomeA new North Carolina law bars public institutions, including public colleges and universities, from letting transgender people use bathrooms that don't reflect their assigned gender at birth. A new study by a Georgia State University professor suggests that such policies are linked to suicide attempts by transgender students. Read more...

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