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The Whitworthian

The Student News Site of Whitworth University

The Whitworthian

The Student News Site of Whitworth University

The Whitworthian

Basketball and volleyball games are held inside of the Fieldhouse, Monday, March 17, 2025, at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. | Gana Battumur/The Whitworthian

The gender attendance imbalance: Whitworth fan attendance is based on sport success, rather than gender

Hannah Higens May 22, 2025

There’s no question that men's sports have a much larger fan base than women’s sports. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), for example, the 23-24 regular season averaged 1.6 million viewers...

"What is a feminist?": Panel put on by the women and gender studies minor discusses what it means to be a feminist

“What is a feminist?”: Panel put on by the women and gender studies minor discusses what it means to be a feminist

November 16, 2015

If one uses the word feminist to describe themselves, it means they believe in equal rights for men and women, according to some students, faculty and staff at Whitworth. The women and gender...

Boppell becomes all-female dorm for upcoming year

April 8, 2014

Boppell Hall, the only upperclassmen dorm on campus, will house only upperclassmen women starting fall 2014, in response to the increasingly wide ratio of women to men on campus. Baldwin-Jenkins will...

Panelists question claims of female progress in today’s society

February 18, 2011

American women might not have been able to vote 100 years ago, but a recent article from The Atlantic claims women today dominate both the boardroom and bedroom in today’s society. Hanna Rosin’s...

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