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The Root of the Problem: Gender Imbalance in STEM Fields

Josie Abugov October 10, 2016

As Kat Edminston ’17 scanned her Advanced Placement Microeconomics and Macroeconomics class on the first day of school, she realized she was one of three girls in the class. A few weeks later, the other...

A necessary conversation

Chronicle Staff April 29, 2015

A yearlong campus dialogue on gender issues culminated with a presentation by anti-sexist activist Jackson Katz last week. Katz urged male students to recognize sexism and gender violence as a universal...

Women’s stories, not history

March 23, 2009

by Alexia Boyarsky Last year, Andrea Van de Kamp, a savvy business woman and long time college dean who fought for her position because she was part of the "weaker sex," spoke about the importance of...

Girls face higher bar at certain colleges

April 25, 2007

By Adam Gold When the admissions decisions for schools in the Ivy League were released on the Thursday before winter break, Chloe Searcy ’07 was anxious to hear from her first choice, Brown University. Searcy,...

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