How the One Big Beautiful Bill threatens women in academia

In late winter, as policymakers debated the sweeping provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Dr. Diane Merians Penaloza was thinking less about headlines and more about hallways — hallways where first‐generation nursing students hurried between classes, faculty offices where women scholars quietly juggled research deadlines and caregiving, and student centers where gender studies majors found language for experiences they once held in silence.