Tag Archives: Education

The Feministing Five: Rose Lyn Castro

By Anna | Published: December 23, 2011
Rose Lyn Castro is the Project Director for S.P.E.A.R. (Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention) at the University of California, Los Angeles. After attending four years at UCLA as an undergraduate and doing two years of Teach for America, she got hired back to the same organization where she started doing campus organizing. Samahang Pilipino is [...]
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New Study: Sexual harassment prevalent in grades 7 to 12

By Vanessa | Published: November 7, 2011
The New York Times reports: Nearly half of 7th to 12th graders experienced sexual harassment in the last school year, according to a study scheduled for release on Monday, with 87 percent of those who have been harassed reporting negative effects such as absenteeism, poor sleep and stomachaches. On its survey of a nationally representative [...]
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College tour guest post: The luck of the draw

By Chloe | Published: November 2, 2011
This is a guest post from Kirstin Rower, the student panelist for tomorrow’s Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered event at UC Merced. Kirstin is a UC Merced sophomore and the president of University Women of Merced Network (UWMN), the campus feminist organization. She intends to major in performing arts while simultaneously kicking some anti-choice butt. Find [...]
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Should single-sex education be allowed?

By Chloe | Published: October 18, 2011
That’s the question the NYT’s Room for Debate series asked yesterday, in light of a new review of research that finds that single-sex education isn’t good for students of any gender. The authors of the study wrote: Past reviews and our own peer-reviewed research led us to conclude that academic achievement is not superior in [...]
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This is why we need more women in student leadership

By Chloe | Published: October 18, 2011
Last year at my alma mater, a committee was formed to investigate why there were so few women in student government leadership. When the committee presented its findings in March of this year, this was one of them: Although some women do run for elected office, many students choose less visible jobs behind the scenes. [...]
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