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Posts published by “Claire Hannan”

Does the gender ratio affect sports?

I’ve talked about being a student-athlete in this column before and my experiences being a woman in competitive sports. Overall, I have loved swimming at Stevens for the past three years.

Addressing the rainbow elephant in the room

I find the idea of this column pretty daunting. I mean, how could I possibly write articles that are going to capture the experience of being a woman?

Girl boss: nature or nurture?

I come from a long line of girl bosses — that’s the best way to describe my family. My mom, her mom, and all the moms going back as far as memory goes have lived badass lives and raised their daughters to be the same.

A girl alone in the woods

Many people have heard of Transcendentalism, the brand of philosophy that centers around self-reliance, nature, and human experience. The concept was popularized by men like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and typically comes with a more masculine image.

How do men and women show compassion?

Two years ago, I took a class called Psychology of Gender (I highly recommend it if anyone is interested), and it made me start to notice things that I hadn’t ever thought about before.

Jump scare sexism

Picture this: you’re scrolling through Instagram. Everything is chill on your feed, a normal mix of dog videos and reposted TikToks when all of a sudden, the algorithm decides to pull up a grainy Reddit screenshot where some man explains why women suck and should be in the kitchen.