Lana Black, transgender girl and junior, often watches “The Watermelon Woman,” a 1996 film by Cheryl Dunye; it is one of her favorites. Black said she likes to watch films made by women as she...

Now more than ever women are being placed in prestigious political positions.  In particular, 13 out of 33 proposed positions on President Joe Biden’s cabinet are women. This is a record-breaking number....

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Bryn Walker, vice president of CHS Democrats Club and senior, said she strongly believes in equality for all; however, although she said she thinks society has made progress in addressing discrimination,...

Trust the system. Trust the system in which men get paid more than equally capable women in virtually every profession. This is the idea that Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft conveyed to a group of...

“I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was as much of a whore as Wendy Davis. And I’ve met some epic whores in my travels,” reads a tweet from Todd Kincannon, Tea Party activist and former head...

Recently, female pop stars have been shaking the entertainment industry with promotions of feminism. On Jan. 12, Beyoncé published an essay on feminism, stating, “We need to stop buying into the myth...

In September 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the Roe v. Wade case in which a woman under the alias Jane Roe argued that prohibiting her from having an abortion was against her constitutional...

It’s an unsavory topic, almost sensational, but it’s something we all need to hear. This March, two high school football stars in Steubenville, OH were convicted of raping an intoxicated teenage girl...

During her freshman year, Meredith Baranowski, current Speaker of the House, walked into her first House meeting and saw a lone female on stage, Sunny Huang ’10, then Speaker of the House. “My immediate...

On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. June 10, 1963 marks the date Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal for an employer to pay a woman less than what her...