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The Female Experience: An Open Letter to My Rapist
A NOTE FROM THE ADVISOR OF THE PIONEER: This letter is real. It was written by Amber Jones, an OCCC student who was raped. Because most newspapers don’t identify the... Read More →
The Female Experience: Understanding the Life of a Woman Who Works as a “Sugar Baby”
Rain broke on sidewalk. The heat escaping concrete, cast the gentle smell one associates with summer showers, inoffensive, indescribable, and timeless. Sitting inside Elemental Cafe, I watched rain and people... Read More →
The Female Experience: Lindsey Busby Combined Medicine, Science for her Career
Lindsey Busby is a graduate student at a private college working on completing her masters degree in science to become a Nurse Practitioner. This title puts her scope of practice... Read More →
The Female Experience: Women and Technology Don’t Always Mix
We are a mediated culture where mass media and technology have a direct effect on our actions, thoughts, and values. Technology plays a large role in creating social norms because... Read More →
The Female Experience: Women Still Fighting For Equality In America’s Political Systems
Women are still a minority. In 2018, 107 women — 78 Democrats, 29 Republicans — held seats in the United States House and Senate, comprising only about 20 percent of... Read More →
The Female Experience: Despite A Federal Law, the Pay Gap Continues for America’s Working Mothers
In 1963, then-President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. The law’s goal was to eliminate the wage discrepancy between men and women. In that year, women... Read More →
The Female Experience: For Women, Modern Gender Roles Continue to Evolve
Female gender issues have surfaced in the past several years. They mingle with the role females play in everyday society. It might even be safe to say feminism is becoming... Read More →
The Female Experience: It’s not easy to be a Single Mother in America
Most children in the United States are still raised in two parent homes. But the scale has started to tip exponentially over the last few decades. More American children are... Read More →
The Female Experience: How do we view ourselves?
Body image is the way a person feels about and sees their own body. If you ask most women about the first time they ever felt insecure and ashamed about... Read More →
31 Years Later We See How It Started In Solo: A Star Wars Story
June 15, 2018 0 1377First appearing in Episode IV: A New Hope, the character Han Solo quickly became a fan favorite. Originally portrayed by the Harrison Ford, Han Solo is the focus of the... Read More →