Christy Vang Why is it important that Saudi women should have the right and access to education? According to religious and conservative views, women’s primary duties are being mothers, nurturers, and teachers. However, progressively, women’s duties are more than just that. They help society succeed by preparing future leaders and engaging in the economy … Read more
With our focus on the maquiladoras and labor rights violations/exploitation, I thought I would share some information about the International Labor Rights Forum. They work globally to create safe and fair conditions for workers. ILRF has a newsletter they send out and it often contains petitions that you can sign as well as other ways … Read more
As immigration enforcement has risen, it has enriched the private prison industry, including corporations such as GEO. What are the legal and ethical responsibilities of these institutions? Are they skirting rights protections of detainees because these are not government-run? Are they doing so because detainees are primarily undocumented? This article exposes a detention center in … Read more
It is no surprise that women are the minority at NASA. Women are a minority in the STEM fields in general. A recent BBC article interviewed women at NASA and got their perspectives on what role they wanted women to play as NASA moves forward. Overwhelmingly, these women wanted the first astronaut on Mars to be … Read more
BuzzFeed recently featured a segment on photographs taken by an Italian photographer in Rwanda that illustrated the positive impact that women are having on the development of Rwanda after the genocide. According to the segment, 64% of the Rwandan parliament is female. We discussed in class how the quota system mandates a 30% minimum, so … Read more
This is a wonderful life synopsis of Janet Mock, born as Charles, who finds herself living the life she dreamed despite living in a discriminatory world. I love this story especially because Janet is able to boast her success as a black trans woman who had so much against her but she beat the system … Read more
The Notorious RBG is getting a film! On May 4th, a film about the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg will be hitting the screen. In many ways, she has changed the course of history by dissenting in major cases. Watch the trailer below to get a sneak peak at the life of RBG. Anyone … Read more
Many of you may have seen the HBO show Big Little Lies. This show weaves a dark murder in Monterey, California. Amidst doting moms, successful husbands, beautiful children, and stunning homes exists a community fueled by rumors. Reese Witherspoon is one of the lead actors and she participated in this series because she was in … Read more
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/04/an-architect-for-the-feminist-moment/557516/ This Article written by the Atlantic discusses a lack of female architects in a world that has an increasingly larger amount of women in the workplace. The article tells us that “as women—likelier than those of previous generations to have attended college, and to take on white-collar jobs—are filling a rising share of seats … Read more
In the second short paper for this course I wrote about the two Ted talks done by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Each talk that she gave was extremely powerful in the message that they gave, one challenging the nature of the worlds tendency to only tell a story from a single point of view, the other … Read more