“The hope of today is not to report on what it was, but hopefully to plant some seeds, and to cast some vision for what we do,” Ramsey said. “It took a team to get this far, and it took a team to move ahead.”
Browsing: Women
“Get out your clay or your chainsaw. Make an herb garden of someone you believe should be tributed. My book is my tribute to these women,” Wiesner Hanks said.
Whether you always like them, you want to watch them. You know the old saying, “well-behaved women seldom make history.” Well, they seldom make the Emmys, either.
For low-income women, the cost of everyday products can strain their budgets. It can lead to choosing between needed feminine products or groceries. Nobody should have to choose between two human necessities.
The Women’s History Month Roundtable: Reflections in History will display Baylor graduate students’ and professors’ research surrounding women and celebrate their contribution to history. The event is open to everyone and will be at 3:30 p.m. March 20 in the Lewis-Birkhead Lecture Hall of Armstrong Browning Library.
Humanities professors showcased how digital research tools are helping them tell women’s stories on Wednesday at a panel event titled “Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories.”
“Our mission statement is creating a community of women that celebrates the desire to achieve cultivating ambition to prepare the next generation of leaders,” Ehler said.
Through a fundraising event called Wildtorch, local nonprofit Jesus Said Love is fighting to free women from a history of sexual exploitation in Waco that dates back to 1889.
“My goal was to help modern Christian women who were taught that their divine role was to follow the leadership of men,” Barr said. “My goal was to help women understand where that idea came from and to also understand that idea is rooted in history, not actually in scripture. My thesis for [the book] is just real easy: It’s that biblical womanhood isn’t biblical, and that it’s actually something that’s been created in culture.”
Baylor’s Women and Gender Studies Program hosted the ninth annual Boundary Breaking Women’s Panel to highlight the lives and stories of women on Monday.
This select group of Instagram users and celebrities, whether they realized it or not, robbed young girls of the innate joy that comes with sharing their excitement with the world and proudly loving every part of themselves. It is up to us, as young women, to take back that stolen joy.
Ah yes, once again the Baptist Church put women in their place in 2023 … at least, that’s what you’ve been told. That couldn’t be further from the truth, and Southern Baptists have been providing the receipts to back it up for decades.
As a woman who has been trying to build her career as a journalist, I want my career and published work to follow my name from when I started. I started as Caitlyn Meisner, and I want to finish under that name. My name will follow me everywhere, and I don’t want to confuse future employers with a name change.
“When we come together as a group of women, I’ve seen that voice have a real effect and a growing effect across campus,” Pond said. “We’ve been heard across campus, we’re listened to, and we’ve been able to make a difference.”
Public restrooms should serve to welcome and suit the needs of anyone who uses them. That’s why institutions like Baylor hire staff to restock soap and toilet paper and to keep the facilities clean. Baylor should do the same for the women on campus by providing free and accessible feminine products in the bathrooms.
“They feel empowered by the strength and wisdom that they have collected over the years,” Moody-Ramirez said. “Many times they feel that it would be wrong to keep this wisdom to themselves, so they feel led to either share it on social media platforms or in books. Many of them, like Grace, end up doing both.”
In January 2013, Baylor’s reaction to active duty opportunities was not entirely positive, according to The Baylor Lariat. A female member of the ROTC said back then she did not want to obtain an active duty position, and was unsure if that was where she would be placed now. Responses have changed over the past 10 years — Baylor ROTC female cadets now view this opportunity as empowering.
The answer is very clear. Judgment and mean comments directed toward other women just “aren’t giving” — so to speak. Please give the “pick-me” label a rest.
The group has met to create a social club for women seeking friendship and fun within their community since 1989. While most women are from Waco, anyone in McLennan County is invited to join.
You are not a “pick-me girl” just because you like something that is “not for girls.”
For as long as I can remember, society has enforced the idea that being basic is bad or shameful, and being too different is just as embarrassing.
On Tuesday, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie released an op-ed in the New York Times titled “Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery.” The article revealed her choice to remove both her ovaries and fallopian tubes just two years after she had a double mastectomy — a decision she also publicized.
Baylor is no stranger to the concealed carry on campus debate. There is, however, a new argument is rising into popularity that has yet to hit the university. This year, lawmakers in 10 states who are in support of guns being permitted on campus are highlighting sexual assault prevention. The idea is that if females were armed, they would be less likely to be attacked, and in the case of an attack, could better protect themselves.
Only a small fraction of Army women say they’d like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service’s nearly 170,000 women.
By Rebecca Fiedler Staff Writer Baylor women who have had involvement in the military have expressed differing opinions following the…
Ladies, we are being lied to. The media sends us sneaky messages about what being a woman in this day and age entails. If we aren’t careful, we slip into the habit of changing our behavior in order to fit the image of the ideal woman. Let me remind you of a few things the media tells us that we can choose not to believe.
My Sister, MySelf is a casual event where women can fellowship and talk about the issues women face in day-to-day life.
The meeting will be at 6 p.m. today in the Baines Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.