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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 20h

IVF and the Leadership Gap for Women (opinion) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

IVF and the Leadership Gap for Women (opinion)

Having left a senior role for the grueling process of IVF, Jennifer Jefferson writes that higher ed must do more to support those seeking to have children through nontraditional means.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 20h

More Than 300,000 Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs This Year. The NAACP Says It’s No Accident. | Essence www.essence.com/news/money-c...

More Than 300,000 Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs This Year. The NAACP Says It’s No Accident. | Essence

The organization is calling out “systemic disinvestment” and pushing for accountability through new initiatives and job fairs.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 1d

Research shows athletes who commit sexual or partner violence are rarely held accountable—about 1 in 5 reoffend. Centering survivors’ wishes means exploring consequences within sport organizations, beyond the criminal system. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Theorizing Feminist Abolitionist Approaches to Gender-Based Violence: A Descriptive Case Study of Gender-Based Violence in SportsWorld - Katie Mirance, Katelyn E. Foltz, Angela J. Hattery, Marissa Kiss, Earl Smith, 2024

Gender-based violence has long been a concern for feminist scholars and activists. Second-wave feminists agitated for the criminalization of violence, and more ...

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 1d

China Hosts a Summit on Women’s Rights, While Stifling Activism www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

China Hosts a Summit on Women’s Rights, While Stifling Activism

The conference was billed as a celebration of China’s achievements in supporting women. But the government has mostly wiped out independent advocacy groups.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 2d

Black women’s unemployment ‘dire warning’ for the economy www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Black women’s unemployment ‘dire warning’ for the economy

Your definitive guide to women, politics and power.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 2d

What your teenage son is really seeing on social media, according to new survey | CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...

What your teenage son is really seeing on social media, according to new survey | CNN

Most teen boys are exposed to “digital masculinity,” with posts showing up in their feeds that criticize their body, their emotions and girls, a new survey says.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is cutting funding to universities with large Hispanic student populations – here’s what to know theconversation.com/trump-is-cut...

Trump is cutting funding to universities with large Hispanic student populations – here’s what to know

Hispanic-Serving Institutions enroll over 60% of all Hispanic undergraduates in the US and include large schools like Florida International University.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 3d

How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses

Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 3d

This International Day of the Girl, 'Doing Nothing Is Not an Acceptable Choice' msmagazine.com/2025/10/10/i...

This International Day of the Girl, 'Doing Nothing Is Not an Acceptable Choice'

On Oct. 11, we celebrate International Day of the Girl, a global call to recognize girls’ rights and confront persistent inequality. When hope wavers and progress stalls, I look for words that steady…

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 3d

7 in 10 women are worried about the cost of medical bills 19thnews.org/2025/10/medi...

7 in 10 women are worried about the cost of medical bills

Polling from The 19th and SurveyMonkey sheds light on one area of concern over costs as the fight over health care keeps the government shuttered.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 4d

Where is Our Red Line in Academia? www.theeduledger.com/opinion/arti...

Where is Our Red Line in Academia?

While there has been some resistance to the hard-armed demands and required reverence to the trifles and narcissistic tangents of this administration, there has overwhelmingly been acquiescence and…

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 5d

Grief, Power and the Ongoing Fight for Women’s Rights msmagazine.com/2025/10/08/w...

Grief, Power and the Ongoing Fight for Women’s Rights

From daily violence to decisions over their bodies, women’s suffering is ignored and their losses go largely ungrieved.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 5d

As the Supreme Court Appears Ready to End State Bans on Conversion Therapy, a Reminder: The Practice Is Harmful and Discredited msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/s...

As the Supreme Court Appears Ready to End State Bans on Conversion Therapy, a Reminder: The Practice Is Harmful and Discredited

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 6d

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 6d

U.S. women are increasingly shut out of a breast cancer treatment valued around the world www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

U.S. women are increasingly shut out of a breast cancer treatment valued around the world

The technique, known as IORT, has numerous benefits, surgeons say, but it generates less money for hospitals and radiation oncologists.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 7d

Colleges Must Pursue All Legal Paths for Diversity (opinion) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Colleges Must Pursue All Legal Paths for Diversity (opinion)

They should continue to consider socioeconomic and geographic indicators in admissions, eight state attorneys general write.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 7d

Supreme Court Could Gut Abortion, LGBTQ Protections With These 3 Cases—Analysis rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/06/s...

Supreme Court Could Gut Abortion, LGBTQ Protections With These 3 Cases—Analysis

SCOTUS will hear three cases on anti-abortion centers and LGBTQ+ rights—all from the Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 7d

Hegseth’s “Warrior Culture” Risks Excluding Women from Military Service - Feminist Majority Foundation feminist.org/news/hegseth...

Hegseth’s “Warrior Culture” Risks Excluding Women from Military Service - Feminist Majority Foundation

At a recent gathering of top military brass in Quantico, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for the armed forces to abandon what he called “woke culture” and return to a rigid “warrior” ethos.…

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 8d

Why do women live longer than men? A study offers clues to close the gap www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) @socwomen.bsky.social · 9d

Why black women’s stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violence. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...