Role Reboot

Why We Need To Stop Devaluing Femininity

The message that we consistently send out is that in order to achieve any kind of significant career goals, girls need to adopt traits that are typically associated with masculinity. A few months ago, my 4-year-old son went to a classmate’s birthday. The party was superhero-themed and the loot bags were packed with cute little […]

While Supporting Women In STEM, We Can’t Neglect The Humanities

An unfortunate side effect of teaching men and women alike that STEM fields are the only areas that matter is that the humanities—and by extension, feminine cultural traits like collaboration and compassion—are unfairly seen as frivolous or ornamental. At the transition from fiction to creative non-fiction, I asked my creative writing class to buy copies of Pilgrim […]