Millersville University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

04/13/2026

Women are making scientific progress and careers in science!

The detail sparked a major conversation 😲👏

04/13/2026

🌘 Once in a blue moon, history changes forever.

💫 1961: First human in space
👩‍🚀 1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
🌍 1992: Mae Jemison is the first Black astronaut in orbit
🌖 2026: Christina Koch becomes the first woman on a Moon mission

This International , we celebrate all of the women shaping our shared future beyond Earth.

When women have a seat on the spaceship, we all soar to greater heights 🚀

04/10/2026

Pride is about the people we show up with 💛

The friends, partners, and chosen family who make these moments matter.

We’re already looking forward to being back together for Lititz Pride on Saturday, June 6.

✨ What are you most excited for?
💬 Share your favorite Pride memory with us

12/08/2025

Behind Bogotá’s care revolution is a women’s movement with teeth.

In 2010, Colombia became the first country to legally require that its government quantify how much unpaid work was being done and by whom. The initial time-use survey, conducted in 2012, found that caregivers provided more than 35 billion hours of labor each year, amounting to more than one-fifth of the country’s GDP. Women did 80 percent of that work.

The political will to do something about those statistics started to build. One movement bolstering women in the city was the Mothers of False Positives, led by women whose sons had been killed by the military in the mid-2000s; the military then falsely presented these men as guerrilla fighters to inflate its own body counts. The mothers transformed their grief into a public reckoning, marching, testifying, and demanding justice — reframing the work of motherhood itself as a form of political resistance.

All these factors paved the way for Claudia López’s 2019 mayoral campaign. Care blocks, the signature policy of López’s administration, are built around the “3 Rs”: recognize, redistribute, and reduce. Recognize that care work is real work that sustains society. Redistribute it — not just between women and men, but to care recipients when able, and to the state, employers, and communities. And reduce the overall burden so individual caregivers aren’t consumed by it.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy/469634/care-blocks-child-care-women-caregiving-elder-care-families?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fvoxdotcom%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F615894664

📸: Juanita Escobar for Vox

08/11/2025

Margaret Rossiter’s work forced the scientific world to look into a mirror it had long avoided. She dedicated her life to uncovering the ways women’s discoveries and innovations had been quietly erased, ignored, or reassigned to men. In 1993, she gave this long-standing injustice a name—the Matilda Effect—honoring suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who had spoken out over a century earlier about women scientists whose work was buried under male recognition. The phrase became a rallying point for anyone fighting to ensure that brilliance is acknowledged, no matter who it comes from.

Her scholarship was never just a matter of documenting the past; it was an act of restoration. Through decades of meticulous research, Rossiter traced the careers of women who defied the rules of their time—those who worked without pay, without official titles, and often without the chance to publish under their own names. Her three-volume Women Scientists in America was a monumental achievement, painstakingly built from archives, letters, and forgotten records. With each profile, she brought women back into the narrative of American science, not as footnotes or curiosities, but as central contributors whose ideas shaped their fields.

Rossiter’s work resonated because it spoke to a universal truth about ambition and recognition. She exposed the invisible scaffolding that holds women back—not just in the past, but in the present—making it clear that the barriers are systemic, not individual failings. Her research became a foundation for programs and policies designed to open doors for women in , ensuring that their names would be remembered alongside their discoveries.

Her achievements were celebrated with the highest honors in her field, including the Sarton Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim. Yet perhaps her most enduring legacy is the Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, which now honors others who follow in her footsteps. Through her work, Margaret Rossiter changed how history is written, and in doing so, she changed who gets to be remembered.

08/02/2025

Diana Rigg wore a leather catsuit on The Avengers — and walked off set when the producers paid the cameraman more than her.
She was Emma Peel. Cool. Witty. Deadly in heels. The 1960s fantasy woman — every man wanted her, and every woman wanted to be her. But Rigg wasn’t interested in being reduced to a poster. When she found out she was earning less than the crew, she publicly called it out — one of the first British actresses to demand pay equity in a very male-dominated industry.
“I was never prepared to accept what was handed to me,” she later said. “Not without a fight.”
Offscreen, she loathed the fame that came with Peel. Paparazzi chased her. Journalists asked if she was wearing underwear. She told them to go to hell — elegantly. After The Avengers, she took a total pivot. Shakespeare. Stage. Serious drama. She refused to coast on glamour. She once said being a s*x symbol was “bloody boring.”
Then, just when a new generation might’ve forgotten her, she came roaring back. As Lady Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones, she became a fan favorite — stealing every scene with a single arched eyebrow and savage one-liner. In real life, she was battling cancer the entire time.
Diana Rigg died in 2020, at 82. Her last words on-screen? “Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.”
Fitting. A lifetime of playing women who didn’t apologize — and never blinked when the power shifted.

07/29/2025

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