Equality Content

Lisa Ikemoto on the Ripple Effects of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision

Soterios J Johnson — October 25, 2022 - 2:28am

The consequences of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade go far beyond the immediate right to terminate a pregnancy. Some of the ramifications are only now being realized, months after the court’s landmark abortion ruling.

Women Gain More Political and Economic Power, but Gender Gap Persists

Karen Michele Nikos — August 09, 2019 - 11:15am

While women have made great strides in entering the workforce, running companies and getting elected to Congress, there remains a persistent gender gap in attitudes about equality between men and women, suggests a University of California, Davis, study.

Socio-Economic Factors Influence Student-Athlete Identity, Study Finds

Karen Michele Nikos — August 14, 2017 - 11:00am

Think high school sports are played on a level field? Think again. A new study finds that young men’s identities as student-athletes are heavily influenced by precisely the socio-economic factors that sports supposedly transcend.

Jeffrey O. Sacha, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at the University of California, Davis, surveyed 534 male student-athletes from three Los Angeles high schools during the 2014-15 academic year, conducting in-depth interviews with 20 from each school.