In a podcast in October, comedian Heather McDonald spoke out about sexual harassment that she and other female employees were enduring from her former boss, University of California Regent Norman J. Pattiz, 73, who was reappointed for a second 12-year term, in 2014.
A new study from the University of California’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health investigates the law-shaping myth that women who wish to have an abortion need extended counseling, ultrasounds, and waiting periods to make a decision. For the huge majority of them, the decision is already made.
Over 400 pages of documents released to The Guardian and the East Bay Times reveal a pattern of sexual harassment among faculty and staff at the University of California at Berkeley. The documents, which include disciplinary reports as well as correspondence, show that 19 employees, including six faculty members, have…
A new study looking at television portrayals of abortion found that fictional abortion patients are overwhelmingly younger, wealthier, and whiter than abortion patients in real life. “That’s true of everything on TV,” you could argue, correctly, but the authors point out it could contribute to public misunderstanding…
Affirmative Action will still be on the books at University of Texas, Austin, despite Abigail Fisher, the college applicant who famously took her UT rejection letter all the way to the Supreme Court.
United States secretary of Homeland Security and one-time Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano is leaving her post in the Obama administration to take over the University of California school system, reports the LA Times. She'll be the first woman to take the job.
