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What does it mean to be a feminist? What does it mean to be a Muslim woman in Minnesota? The challenges and experiences of two local Muslim women give us an inside look into the complex identities of this growing Minnesota population. What does it mean to be a feminist? What does it mean to be a Muslim woman in Minnesota? Continue Reading
Language can be a huge barrier for immigrant and migrant women. If your first language is Spanish, you may be able to get some essential services with the help of a translator. Continue Reading
We’re average. Well, actually a tiny bit below average. Minnesota students may generally outperform the national average on test scores, but if you do the math, we’re less than average when it comes to the number of women who lead our colleges and universities. Approximately 21 percent of the leaders of our four-year colleges and universities are led by women; the national average is about 24 percent. At a time when there are more women undergraduates than ever, what’s the path to college leadership like? Continue Reading
We know we should do it. Everyone says so. Especially now, when things are tighter than ever. No, we’re not talking about diet or exercise or clothes that, um, shrunk in the wash. It’s networking that’s the “should,” and experts say that in these days of shrinking employment opportunities and the “hidden” job market, it’s whom you know and whom they know that are crucially important. Continue Reading
Moms on the hows and whys of raising feminist children
When Dr. Mary Douglas Vavrus speaks to her students in the University of Minnesota’s communication studies program, she routinely talks about how television impacts the objectification of women. One example involves showing students TV news segments about two public attacks on women that are shockingly similar to scenes from music videos. And then she goes home to answer questions from her 4-year-old son about why so many women are pictured in their underwear in advertising and TV. “We talk about how those pictures can make people respect real women and girls less and can make us think it’s OK to be mean to them,” Vavrus said. “We’ve talked about how he doesn’t like to run around in public in his underwear and how that makes him feel ‘weird.’ Continue Reading
Summer, 2000. My friend Lisa and I were shopping for clothes for the baby girls we were waiting to adopt. Lisa was looking at frilly pastel dresses. I was examining overalls in bright primary colors. Later, over lunch, Lisa asked, ‘Are you going to raise your daughter to be a princess?’ Continue Reading
What do Ada Wolfe, Alice Hugy, Clara Mairs, Frances Cranmer Greenman and Josephine Lutz Rollins have in common? They are women. They are Minnesotans. They lived between 1876 and 1989. They are among Minnesota’s first generation of women artists. Continue Reading
Mirael Goss lives and goes to school in Minneapolis. She is entering the 10th grade at Washburn High School and was a 2007 Youth News Intern. As a young African-American woman, Mirael was troubled by stereotypes of African American women, and how they affected them in her community, which is the focus of her youth news report. Mirael Goss lives and goes to school in Minneapolis. She is entering the 10th grade at Washburn High School and was a 2007 Youth News Intern. Continue Reading