The following are a collection of news articles relating to gender issues gathered by students during the Spring 2021 semester:

March 2021

“U.S. Supreme Court signals more leeway for voting restrictions“

In the news the voting rights act has become a pretty hot topic especially coming out of a very tumultuous election cycle! The Voting Rights act of 1965 aims to eliminate or reduce discrimination related to voter activities, but Arizona law has recently violated it as they have made a law against what critics call “ballot harvesting”. Arizona’s measures made it a crime to provide another person’s completed early ballot to election officials, with the exception of family members or caregivers. The issue is that oftentimes community activists sometimes engage in ballot collection to facilitate voting and increase voter turnout. This issue was recently brought to the supreme court and it seems that the Republican majority will state that the law is constitutional and not in violation of the voting rights act.

April 2021

“Biden calls mass killing of Armenians a genocide”

Biden’s predecessors have acknowledged the mass killing of Armenians but stopped short of using the term genocide due to Turkish objections. As a candidate, Biden said he would make the designation, and a bipartisan group of members of Congress urged Biden to take action ahead of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, which is observed on April 24 and marks the beginning of the atrocities in 1915.

“Japanese doctors perform world’s first living donor lung transplant to a Covid-19 patient”

A Japanese woman whose lungs were severely damaged by Covid-19 has received what doctors say is the world’s first lung transplant from living donors to a recovered coronavirus patient.

Kyoto University Hospital said the woman underwent an 11-hour operation by a 30-strong medical team on Wednesday to transplant lung tissue from her husband and son.

May 2021

“Facebook board upholds Trump suspension but says it must review indefinite penalty”

Article from PBS NewsHour explaining the Facebook situation regarding President Trump. This article explains how Facebook has their own government, their own jury, and their own Supreme Court.

“U.S. approves waiving intellectual property rules on COVID-19 vaccines”

Article from PBS NewsHour explaining why the United States approved easing the global trade rules regarding the COVID vaccine.

“EPA rule to phase out gases used in refrigerators and coolants”

The EPA is phasing out harmful gases used in fridges! A positive step towards being environmentally cleaner as a country.