One in four women in college has been the victim of rape or attempted rape. Women earn 75 cents for every dollar a man earns. Thirty percent of emergency room visits by women each year are the result of injuries from domestic violence. Women have been shortchanged in medical research. Girls have been shortchanged in our gender-biased schools.
Girls suffer a dramatic loss of self-esteem during adolescence.
Gender is a social construction. Women's Studies Departments empowered women and gave them a voice in the academy.