Teens sickened after eating Tide Pods became part of a viral social media campaign earlier this year that awakened concerns about why such silliness ever gains momentum. “Trends like this can come from the bottom rather than through mass media,” said Carrie Brown, the director of social media journalism at The City University of New…
Somedays, Shirley Pinkerton is Larcena Pennington, the wife of a wealthy farmer in 1881. On other days she is Annie Neil, an Afro-Native American woman who fought her way up to becoming a business owner. Or somedays she dresses like as a miner as Pearl Hart, a stagecoach bandit in 1899. For 12 years Pinkerton…
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, women in Arizona are paid 84 cents for every dollar paid to men, a total of a $7,029 wage gap. The wage gap varies even further by race, according to the Arizona Women and the Wage Gap fact sheet, Asian women are paid 81 cents, African…
A small middle-aged woman sits on the ground of a mechanic shop in jeans and leather boots. She places a wrench on a tire but instead of using her arms, she stands on the bar and jumps down to make it turn. “You need to find leverage in different ways since women’s strength isn’t in…
Millennials just aren’t swinging the sticks like many generations before them. According to the National Golf Foundation (NGF) Millennial’s represent roughly 25 percent of the U.S. population, and in 2014 golf saw 200,000 Millennials step away from the sport. In 2016 the golf world took a hit as nearly 230 golf courses closed, while only…
