The NewBostonPost this month will tackle the topic of "Sex and gender on campus." This theme is broad and poses a vast array of questions on sexual mores, campus sexual assault, equality of the sexes, feminism, and academic disparities – to name just a few.
When Simone de Beauvoir's landmark book, "The Second Sex" landed on shelves in 1949, sex differences were clearly defined: people born male were men, and people born female were women.
De Beauvoir's book challenged this assumption, writing, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
