Column: Mainstream sports rhetoric limits female athletes
By Joanna Li | Senior Staff Writer
June 13, 2018
Filed under Sports, Sports Columns
“You play ball like a girl,” said “Ham” from “The Sandlot,” settling an intense roast battle against the baseball uniform-wearing rich kids with what seems to be the greatest insult one could possibly say to someone in 1962. But the insult is two-fold. Female athletes face a deep...
#MeToo in the office: pay attention to women
By Anne Marie Yurik | Columnist
April 11, 2018
My family often sits down together on holidays or birthdays to have dinner — served by the women — at my grandmother's house. After dinner, the table is crowded with leftovers, dirty dishes and empty glasses. The women all stand up from the table to walk around, pick up the dirty dishes and go to t...