women

‘The Vagina Monologues’ challenges social norms

By presenting dramatic, emotional, humorous and honest accounts of real women across the globe, the actors in Vagina Monologues hope to encourage audience members to have more open conversations about female sexuality and to feel secure enough in their own sexualities to speak about sex and vaginas in an honest, and even celebratory, way.

| Senior Scene Editor

Breaking down gender barriers as WU’s first female ROTC battalion commander

Senior Rachel Atkins has challenged the male dominated Army establishment with her appointment to cadet battalion commander for Washington University’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). Atkins is the first female to attain the rank in the Gateway Battalion’s history.

| Scene Assignment Editor

Hands-on learning expands into St. Louis

The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department (WGSS) is expanding its course offerings to include many more community-based learning classes.
Although service-learning classes are offered in many different areas through all of Washington University’s schools, WGSS is specifically institutionalizing community-based learning in its curriculum.

| News Editor

Top 10 spring 2010 trends for women

Good news, everyone: You don’t have to wait until spring to begin shopping for this season’s most coveted items. Here’s a countdown to this spring’s number one fashion trend:

| Scene Fashion Columnist

Administration should reflect diversity

We are seeing something unprecedented on the national stage: women and people of color in real positions of leadership. Whether we agree more with the politics of the right or […]

| Op-Ed Submission

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