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The GAO Report: Celebration of Women
The past weekend was a celebration of women. Sunday, which was Mother’s Day this year, also happened to be the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill. The Food and Drug Administration’s...
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The Midnight Fryer: How to be a Woman (by American Media)
As a girl who moved to the States when she was 12 years old, I relied mostly on the media to learn what it means to be a woman. I have learned: 1. Shop ’till you drop. Spend! Consume! Flaunt! To be...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas Becomes Cosmo
After putting a man on the moon, curing polio and inventing TiVo, science has finally taken on one of the big problems: a lack of taxonomy surrounding flirting styles. Well, our long national nightmare...
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Reality Check: Realistic Sizes For Real People
I’m having myself a nice leisurely stroll through the bookstore on yet another Wednesday afternoon. Oh, a book I won’t have time to read. How lovely. A tourist feverishly capturing each and every...
View ArticleCS seeks greater female involvement
Perhaps even more remarkable than the record-breaking enrollment in CS 106A last quarter was the percentage of those 594 students who were female. “We’re getting pretty close to gender parity,” said...
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On the Margins, Between the Lines: Attrition of women from techie majors
My mother is a structural engineer; my dad is a computer scientist. When I entered Stanford, I was sure I was going to be techie. I didn’t know what I wanted to major in (although science seemed like a...
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Forget Oscar—It’s Time for Bechdel
It’s Oscar time. Time for the best- and worst-dressed lists, the endless media coverage, the analysis, the predictions and the recognition of great storytellers and their cohorts. As viewers tune in to...
View ArticleStanford Women in Business shifts focus for greater outreach
Stanford Women in Business (SWIB) – a student group dedicated to providing opportunities for women interested in pursuing careers in business – underwent fundamental changes this year from event...
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Piques her Pinterest
Over Christmas break, my friend received a juicer as a gift. She promptly invited me (a fellow juice enthusiast) over to join her in making our very own concoction. But we had a small problem. We had...
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Stanford Knight Fellow promotes female journalists in Afghanistan
Courtesy of Amie Ferris-Rotman As U.S. troops gradually withdraw from Afghanistan and as the country nears a pivotal presidential election, gender roles and the status of women in Afghanistan have been...
View ArticleWhen ducks drown: shifting paradigms of mental health
It’s around that time of the year again – endless weeks of midterms, steadily growing alarm as the overdue assignments pile up, looming deadlines of papers and tests, not enough sleep and too many...
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OpenXChange discussion series to promote diversity in feminism
On Feb. 29, OpenXChange will launch a month-long, five-part discussion series about diversity in feminism titled “What’s My Feminism?” — the latest installment in its year-long effort to promote...
View ArticleWhy Hillary Clinton should not be president
Women have long struggled to achieve resolutions in the electoral realm for years, even before Susan B. Anthony shaped the early days of the suffragette movement. Women’s efforts have been much like...
View ArticleTo shatter the ceiling: On women in STEM
It is 2016, and the gender disparity in STEM fields gapes pitifully. Industry giants often publish employee demographics on their company websites for the purpose of increasing diversity; examples...
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Cap and Gown opens membership to underclassmen
(AMELIA LELAND/The Stanford Daily) Cap and Gown, Stanford’s women’s leadership organization, will open membership to underclassmen for the first time in the group’s 112-year history this fall. The...
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Persis Drell named next provost
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced that Persis Drell, dean of the School of Engineering since 2014, has been selected to be the University’s 13th provost. In an email to the Stanford community,...
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Stanford ICME hosts Women in Data Science conference
Speakers at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference gave attendees insight into cutting-edge research in the data science industry last Friday. This second annual conference was the result of...
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Stanford LatinA Engineers prioritize female engineers within SOLE
Stanford LatinA Engineers (SLAE), an organization founded within the Society of Latino Engineers (SOLE) last quarter by three female officers, is working to confront the underrepresentation of women of...
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Melinda Gates emphasizes confidence at campus talk
Melinda Gates spoke at Stanford for a SWIB event (RYAN JAE/The Stanford Daily). On Thursday afternoon, Melinda Gates — business executive and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — spoke...
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[wit]’s production of ‘Hamlet’ brings ‘scorched earth’ to a whole new level
Hannah Miller ’19 is the eponymous ‘Hamlet’ in [wit]’s fall production. (Courtesy of Frank Chen) There’s a lot of theater on campus this year, let alone this quarter, and I try to see all of it. Over...
View ArticleStanford Women’s March draws 500
Exactly one year after the 2017 Women’s March, where millions protested against the inauguration of President Donald Trump and in support of women’s rights and representation, communities across the...
View ArticleAOERC introduces women’s-only lifting hours
Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this article, a debate has arisen as to the potential discriminatory nature of the women-focused sessions under Title IX. University spokesperson EJ Miranda...
View ArticleFair highlights resources for sexual assault victims
On Wednesday, the Women’s Community Center hosted a Sexual Assault Resources Fair where students could speak directly with representatives from four campus organizations concerned with sexual assault....
View ArticleOn this day in Stanford history: April 26
The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details events that occurred on the same date in past years at Stanford. According to The Stanford Daily’s archives, on April 26 in… 1905: A notice was...
View ArticleFaculty Senate talks faculty diversity, approves postdoc involvement in...
At its Thursday meeting, the Faculty Senate heard presentations on the University’s budget for the upcoming academic year, as well as efforts to improve faculty diversity. The Faculty Senate...
View ArticleAngela Davis talks activism, academia
On Thursday night at Cubberley Auditorium, long-time civil rights activist Angela Davis emphasized the importance of intersectionality in academia and activism. Davis also advised students to continue...
View ArticleResearchers work to ensure data validity amid rise in online studies
Amid the growing use of online survey platforms to conduct research, Stanford labs are working to both increase the number of participants in their experiments and, at the same time, reduce the...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: thank you, recall movement
Thank you to the women who organized the campaign to Recall Persky and the thousands of my neighbors who made the historic win possible. We have proved that just like reproductive rights, gun control...
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