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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Ladies, it’s time to stop saying sorry

Analise Bruno September 13, 2023
I’ve found lately that there is actually a point where you can apologize too much —- and this is something especially prevalent among women.
construction worker walks across a steel beam

Janey announces programs aimed at tackling city contract inequity

Sam Trottenberg April 12, 2021
The new Boston Contracting Opportunity Fund will grant up to $15,000 to companies looking to bid.
florida ruffin ridley school in brookline

City Council endorses statewide child care assistance bill

Madison Mercado April 6, 2021
The Common Start bill would provide public funding for affordable early education and child care.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: Can we start treating our women in sports better?

Meredith Varner April 2, 2021
Professional leagues have to catch up with the times and stop treating women as afterthoughts.
Emma Moneuse/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: Time to unpack your internalized misogyny

Meredith Varner February 26, 2021
So many female celebrities get hate from other women for similarly arbitrary reasons, and it all comes from internalized misogyny. It is time to stop this ugly behavior of women tearing down other women and leave it behind in middle school.
Cannabis plant growing in a greenhouse

Recreational dispensary proposed for Newbury Street

Sam Trottenberg February 25, 2021
The proposal comes from Rooted in Roxbury, a local minority-owned cannabis company. Although Newbury Street hosts tobacco and pipe retailers, there are currently no dispensaries on the strip.
Gender Justice: The pandemic revealed deep-rooted gender inequality persists

Gender Justice: The pandemic revealed deep-rooted gender inequality persists

Meredith Varner January 29, 2021
The disproportionate number of women currently out of work could potentially worsen the negative bias against professional women and working mothers.
Meredith Varner

American Protest: America, please do not jeopardize our reproductive rights

Meredith Varner September 27, 2020
Now that President Donald Trump has nominated conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Court has the potential to be as conservative as it last was in the 1930s.  
Yvonne Tang

Dear Men: Female products cost more, and it doesn’t make sense

Yvonne Tang September 14, 2020
The “pink tax” is a subtle form of gender discrimination, with little to no economic reasoning. The shockingly slow legislation relief for this unfair pricing places a significant burden on women.
Attendees converse with one another, sharing their reasons for taking part in a salary negotiations seminar hosted by RISE Forum and herNetwork Thursday in the Questrom School of Business. PHOTO BY VIGUNTHAAN THATMARAJAH/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

AAUW Work Smart teaches Questrom women negotiation skills

Rachel Silberman November 22, 2016

Despite the promises of equality and respect by employers nationwide, women continue to only make 80 cents for every dollar that men make. That amount drops for African-American women, Latina women and...

Professor Barbara Gottfried speaks about masculinity at the “Mind the Gap: Masculinity and the Gender Divide” discussion held Tuesday evening in Metcalf Hall. PHOTO BY SOFIA FARENTINOS/DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Masculinity, gender inequality highlighted in “Mind the Gap” panel

Sophia Eppolito March 16, 2016

Members of the Boston University community discussed the role of masculinity and efforts to end gender discrimination Tuesday with a panel of three during the “Mind the Gap: Masculinity and the Gender...

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