By: Koral Tolifson Based on national averages, women are getting paid less than men in the workforce. This wage gap arouses the potential to question whether tuition should be adjusted accordingly. If women are going into a career expecting to be paid less than the men in the same field, with the same credentials, then…
BY MEAGHAN REINSCHMIDT The film industry has been in a dispute over the wage gap disparity in Hollywood. Over the past few years, the nation has centered its focus on the acknowledgment of gender inequality. In the entertainment industry, films influence their viewers through the screen. People involved in the film industry are coming together…
In today’s political atmosphere, the role of gender is playing a more prominent role than ever before in national discussions. Keeping that in mind, this year’s gender expo will be more important than ever before. “Concordia’s Gender Matters Expo 2017: Now It’s Personal” will take place in the Centrum from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m….
As everyone settles into the new school year, Park Region has a plot twist thrown in with the usual housing mix. This marks the first year that a gender-inclusive floor has been incorporated into a residence hall on campus. This new floor is being presented as “an open space where people are free to discuss…
Grammar. It has adorned blackboards and whiteboards for decades. It has daunted students with the intricacies of its structure and its variances from that of spoken language. The singular use of “they” and other traditionally third person plural pronouns is one such case of this variance. Take, for example, the sentence below. Someone left ______…
A report on gender equity and the treatment of women on Concordia’s campus has been released for the public eye, revealing that there are differences in compensation amongst faculty and staff based on gender. A task force was created two years ago to survey and perform research on gender equity. In 2012, the Community Relations…