Navajo Nation's poet laureate Lauren Tohe explains how giving important and sacred sites colonized names completely erases the sacredness of the area. The names of sacred sites were given by native people. So when European settlers came and took away the significance of the sites by giving them different names. She also shares her Dine culture teachings about how you can't call the names of people who passed because that could disturb them and call them back. We should recognize the significance of land and use their proper names to honor it's history. 

Toastie, B. Image Credit: Tony Abeyta, May 1, 2022. “How place names impact the way we see landscape.” High Country News – Know the West. September 2, 2022, https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landscape 

Gender-based inequality has been a challenge all around the world in many different societies. However, this article mainly focuses on inequality in America. Even though there has been progress in America to reduce gender inequality, we still face this issue today. Some examples of action that has been taken to reduce inequality are the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution- which gave women the right to vote, the Equal Pay Act of 1963- which stopped pay discrimination based on sex, and lastly Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972- this provided equal federal financial assistance nonselective of gender. These actions that were taken to reduce inequality in America made significant changes to shape the society we know today. It also helped America become a front-runner in gender equality in the world placing 20th according to the Global Gender Gap Index in 2014. 

Janet Crawford who graduated from UC Berkeley with a science degree starts off by sharing her experience with sexism during her years at college. She experienced hardships while studying not only because of the content but because of how much she was discriminated against. However, her generation was the first generation in history to have female graduates outnumber males. She then states “...all of us, male and female, are unconsciously gender-biased..” She explains how our brains are constantly trying to find patterns throughout the day. So when the brain finds the pattern it stores them as the way they are. So while your brain is undergoing this process it does not differentiate the fairness or accuracy of the environment. Her solution is to commit yourself to become a good observer of the environment around you. Crawford ends the talk with “no one here is the blame for the problem, but each of us is responsible for the solution.” 

Marta A. Kisiel studied gender discrimination at a Swedish medical school. Their method to study the issue was having the male and female students take a survey. In this survey, they noticed that female students reported gender discrimination more than male students. They learned that physicians were a commonly reported perpetrator among these women. Reports of not being respected rose from 2013 to 2020 among female students. There were even reports of gender discrimination based on ethnicity reported as well. Most of the actions that were reported by these students were abusive behaviors, gender harassment to sexual harassment. 

Lilly Singh, a famous content creator who is most known on Youtube, went on Ted Talk to talk about gender equity. She starts it off by sharing how her parents hid her birth from her grandparents because she was assigned female at birth. It was looked down upon by her grandparents to have a daughter. She shares this because even though she lived this experience, it is a reality that many girls face from different cultures all over the globe. She shares that the start of her career on Youtube changed her grandfather’s gender bias. In 2018 she called out the gender gap in the Forbes list of The highest-paid Youtube stars. She uses this metaphor of “having a seat at the table” to represent how women deserve to be treated equally.