It’s not uncommon for Kenyan public schools to have a “no-hair” policy, meaning both girls and boys have to shave off their tresses, policies that are the legacy of colonialism and, as such, still perpetuate racism.
The next generation of feminists are being nurtured in Sierra Leone, and Moiyattu Banya-Keister, a Sierra Leonean educator and feminist, has created a safe space for this to happen: Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone (GESL).
On January 23, the New York State legislature passed the Jose Peralta Dream Act. This act is a significant win for immigrant rights in the realm of higher education, as it makes an estimated 146,000 DREAMers, or minors brought to the country by their undocumented parents, who attend New York public schools eligible for scholarships and financial aid that was previously unavailable to them.
In March 2019, the first private African satellite will be rocketed into space, thanks to a group of school girls based in Cape Town, South Africa.
By creatively merging theater, dialogue, and activism in Ghana, Drama Queens, a nonprofit feminist organization, is challenging patriarchal norms and ideas and changing the damaging narratives about rape culture and sexuality that are deeply entrenched in many African societies.
As a peer educator at Sex Education by Theatre (SExT), a youth-led, theater-based sex education program, I have a place to express my thoughts and frustrations about the precautions my friends and I take when we go out.
On Friday, United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos released the Department of Education’s new proposed regulations for Title IX which put the burden of proof on sexual assault survivors to defend their claims of assault.
The Safe Schools for Girls Project, created by Care International, takes place in 174 Rwandan schools after regular classes end and aims to address issues related to gender-based violence through education.
We need to change the message we’re sending kids at a young age. it is necessary to provide children with books and media that provide positive representations of gender equality, and do not associate particular abilities or responsibilities with any gender.
Students aren’t just vulnerable because of powerful professors whose prestige allows them to go unchecked, but also because nobody tells them what good relationships with professors are supposed to look like, or presents a clear pathway for how to develop them.
Girls marrying before the age of 18 are more likely not to finish their education, putting them at the risk of financial dependency.
There are currently no policies in Zimbabwe that protect girls who become pregnant while in school. Pregnant students are frequently forced out of their schools due to rules and regulations within the education system that discriminate against them.
The West Virginia strike seems to have started a movement: Teachers in other states such as Arizona, Colorado, and, now, Oklahoma have followed suit and organized their own walkout movements.
While conversations about the #MeToo movement’s impact on Hollywood have proliferated in the media for months, less attention has been paid to how the movement has affected other spaces, like academia.
Growing up, women are taught how to flirt with men and make ourselves appear softer, smaller, and nonthreatening. We are generally not taught about work and money.
Many educational institutions in Tunisia — especially those in rural areas, where people are generally more conservative and traditional — separate girls and boys from each other within the same class so that female students won’t mix with the male students.
The kinds of tactics politicians use to create and pass abortion restrictions are also used by anti-choice groups on college campuses.
The privilege of fully being oneself is harder for students with whom schools take issue — specifically black students, who are often disproportionately affected by dress code sanctions.
In July of this year, Columbia University settled alleged rapist Paul Nungesser’s lawsuit against the school for gender-based discrimination. Nungesser was accused of raping then-fellow Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz, who gained attention for her 2014 performance-art piece Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight).
Emily White is a respected leader in both the music and sports industries. She launched her first company Whitesmith Entertainment in 2009 and has overseen the careers of various musicians and comedians who went on to create Grammy-nominated albums and Emmy Award-Winning writing. White also works with some of the best athletes in the world through her tech startup, Dreamfuel.
