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Black Girls Are 4.19 Times More Likely To Get Suspended Than White Girls – And Hiring More Teachers Of Color Is Only Part Of The Solution
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EDUCATION, VIDEO REELS

Black Girls Are 4.19 Times More Likely To Get Suspended Than White Girls – And Hiring More Teachers Of Color Is Only Part Of The Solution

Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines disproportional school suspensions and, in particular, the ways in which inequity impacts the experiences of students of color. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. Dr. Andrea Joseph-McCatty discusses her research on understanding and addressing racially disproportional school suspensions. You recently gave a talk about the disproportionate suspension of Black girls in the U.S. Why is equity so hard in our schools? Most recently my work has focused on understanding and addressing racially disproportional school suspensions and the ways in which those are also gender disproportionate. F...
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Divided By Gender – Stereotypes Dissuade Girls From Careers In Computer Science
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EDUCATION

Divided By Gender – Stereotypes Dissuade Girls From Careers In Computer Science

Allison Master, University of Houston; Andrew N. Meltzoff, University of Washington, and Sapna Cheryan, University of Washington Stereotypes about what boys and girls supposedly like aren’t hard to find. Toy advertisements send signals that science and electronic toys are intended for boys rather than girls. Computer scientists and engineers on television shows and movies are often white men, like the guys on “The Big Bang Theory.” Policymakers, teachers and parents sometimes subscribe to these stereotypes, too. They might spread them to children. Efforts to combat these stereotypes often focus on boys’ and girls’ abilities. But as researchers who specialize in motivation, identity and cognitive development, we think society has largely overlooked another harmful stereotype. And that ...
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Melinda French Gates And MacKenzie Scott To Fund Women’s And Girls’ Causes – 3 Takeaways
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MONEY, WOMENS ISSUES

Melinda French Gates And MacKenzie Scott To Fund Women’s And Girls’ Causes – 3 Takeaways

Tessa Skidmore, IUPUI and Jacqueline Ackerman, IUPUI Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, two of the biggest U.S. donors, have joined forces by funding the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge. The contest, intended to expand the power and influence of women in the United States by 2030, garnered more than 550 proposals. On July 29, 2021, French Gates and Scott announced the winners: Four initiatives will each receive US$10 million, and two more will get $4 million apiece. In addition to the women formerly married to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies is providing some of these funds. It marks the first official donor collaboration between French Gates and Scott. The money will help boost support for caregivers...
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Black Girls And Their Communities, Celebrate Prom Send-Offs
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EDUCATION

Black Girls And Their Communities, Celebrate Prom Send-Offs

Danielle Nolen sat in her living room, looking glamorous in a baby blue robe and trying to preserve her new regal hairstyle as her family decorated the backyard in black and gold in anticipation of her grand appearance. Her grandmother began fanning her to keep her from sweating off her makeup as the day grew more humid. Once everything was in place outside, the women in her family made their way back to the living room, where they helped her into her emerald gown. As her mother made the final adjustments and zipped the back of the gown, we all sat back in amazement at how radiant she looked in her ensemble. We then gathered family and friends in front of Danielle’s home to await her appearance. The DJ cued up her favorite song. A wicker chair awaited her on the porch, but it might as we...
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Shaping Girls Future As Coders, Teachers Play A Critical Role
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EDUCATION

Shaping Girls Future As Coders, Teachers Play A Critical Role

It doesn’t take long to help girls see a future for themselves in computer science, but it depends largely on how good their teachers are at recognizing the skills the girls have in coding, which is basically writing language for computers. We found that girls ages 10 to 12 can come to see themselves as coders in as little as a week. And there are diverse roles within the world of coding that allow girls with various personalities and skill sets to see themselves as coders. However, if educators recognize girls only for when they play a background role and help others, but not when they are more assertive and confident, then they may not develop their assertiveness and confidence in a way that enables them to succeed as coders. To reach this conclusion, my colleagues and I focused on thre...
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Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys
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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter. Since 2010, depression, self-harm and suicide rates have increased among teen boys. But rates of major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased even more – from 12% in 2011 to 20% in 2017. In 2015, three times as many 10- to 14-year-old girls were admitted to the emergency room after deliberately harming themselves than in 2010. Meanwhile, the suicide rate for adolescent girls has doubled since 2007. Rates of depression started to tick up just as smartphones became popular, so digital media could be playing a role. The generation of teens born after 1995 – known as iGen or Gen Z – were the first to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. They’re also the first group of teens...
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“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics
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Journalism

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics

"BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women." Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press. In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the 2008 Presidential election, to tell the story "about the country and its culture, how we all reacted to the arrival of these surprising new figures on the presidential stage and what they showed us about how far we had come and how far we had yet to go." She does an extremely good job of reaching that goal for most of us. Traister basic contexts are gender politics (including but not narrowly defined by feminism and misogyny), race (including but not narrowly defined by racism), and inter-generational perspectives. She observes that Hillary Clinton, who would put 18 million cracks in the highes...
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LIFESTYLE

White College Girls Sing Kanye West Song With Racial Slur At Party; Internet Gets Triggered

A group of young white women were caught on an Instagram video dancing and singing along with a Kanye West song entitled “Gold Digger.” Controversy has ensued since the video went public and became viral due to the girls singing the “n-word” when it came up in the song. This event happened at an Alphi Phi sorority party at the University of New Hampshire. A racism “watchdog” type of Facebook group entitled “All Eyes on UNH” featured the video on their page with a caption that was none too friendly. Allegations of racism and bigotry were bandied about. The reality here is that while racial slurs are always taboo, labeling these young girls as racist for singing along to popular music is absurd. Especially when referring to rap music, where words like what were sung in the song by these girl...
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