Rachel Jane Allen rallen19@uwyo.edu If you haven’t heard of this phenomenon, the Pink Tax is the price difference between men’s and women’s products. Particularly, it refers to the extra money that women pay for the same brands of the same products. As depicted in the graph, women pay more than men do for products like…
Andrew Server aserver@uwyo.edu As it currently stands, Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs) at the university of Wyoming must write in a non-discrimination clause into their constitutions in order to become recognized by the university. Being recognized by the university allows for RSOs to receive benefits from the university such as free tabling in the Student Union…
By Rachel Allen rallen19@uwyo.edu UW College Republicans RSO claims that the university’s anti discrimination policy undermines the integrity of political clubs. According to the UW Regulation 8-234 concerning RSO’s, “membership in a University RSO shall be open to any student of the University community who is willing to subscribe to the stated aims of the…
Last week an 8-to-1 vote was cast in favor of a Laramie Non-Discrimination Ordinance designed to stop businesses and organizations from discriminating against members of the LGBTQ community. Needless to say with all that’s going on in states like Indiana this should be chalked up as a big win for our little town. One of…
Here’s a simple test. What pops into your mind when you see the words president or nurse? Most of us know plenty of male nursing students and female presidents of RSOs. We live in a society that likes to call itself post-feminist, where the days of bra burning, fighting for the right to vote or…
There have been three separate cases of states changing the legality of same sex marriage in 2014, two by court ruling and one by legislative vote. Same-sex marriage advocates in Wyoming are championing a new study outlining projected economic benefits of changing the state’s existing laws. In December of 2012, Adam Stevenson, a professor…
It is time to come out of the closet, shatter the glass ceiling and mop up the sticky floor. Gay marriage is making headlines all over the world as the Supreme Court hears two cases that have the potential to legalize same sex marriage, but a longer battle for civil rights and equality still rages…
