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Centuries after women gained the right to attend university, there’s still negativity surrounding women in higher education. This stigma is found in the subtle growth of conversations that outwardly sexualize college women. It’s unacceptable and causes demeaning, sexist rhetoric to become the norm in an era when women are thriving in academia.

The negativity is directed both at women involved in specific communities on campus as well as those who attend institutions labeled as “party schools.”

Recent trends insinuate that women involved in Greek life are disloyal and unmotivated, with no concrete evidence to back up these claims. Women in sororities bear the brunt of the constant negative criticism about Greek life, especially in online spaces. Assumptions that women join sororities only to party or become sexually involved are entirely untrue and serve to reinforce a damaging stereotype that causes harm for women across campuses........

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