Yahoo's new maternity and paternity leave policy would delight all those pro-family people who hated on Mayer's work-from-home ban... if only Yahoo's new plan for new parents was as good as the HR strategies at Google and Facebook.
In the days since his apparent suicide, the myths (that men are abused as often as men) and realities (that men are abuse victims) have returned around the so-called Men's Rights Movement, leaving advocates on both sides as conflicted as Silverman himself. We've attempted to sort them out.
As the remembrances poured in for Margaret Thatcher, a trailblazing female politician who once called feminism "poison," in came the #LeanIn references from Silicon Valley to Fox News about the former British Prime Minister and "the fact that Thatcher embodied the 'Lean In' culture," even though she didn't.
One thing we keep talking about when we talk about current-day-now feminism is who women are supposed to be. But isn't telling women to fit in one bucket and not some other one (and then judging them if they deviate from those expectations) rather anti-feminist in itself?
With Sheryl Sandberg's already much talked about "feminist manifesto" Lean In out today, the conversation about the topic has reached new lows, with a lot of women (and men) reverting to pre-Betty Friedan era form.
Mike Mika, a programmer and father, decided to build a workaround for his 3-year-old daughter so she could "play as a girl." The result is a female-friendly version of Donkey Kong that's going viral to start off the week.
After reading Sheryl Sandberg's "feminist manifesto" Lean In, you get the eerie impression that she knew what her critics would say.
With Marissa Mayer's new decree on telecommuting and Sheryl Sandberg's "feminist manifesto," everyone has an opinion about the feminine boss, but on what they're actually doing. Here's how we talk about women in power now.
Despite inheriting the title of Woman Who Has It All in Chief, the Yahoo CEO doesn't want to lead the feminist tribe, according to comments she said over a year ago that have resurfaced in light of her recent scandalous order to end work-at-home setups.
Here's a 21st Century story about the speed with which an innocent joke becomes a roaring Twitter meme and just as quickly dies in the GIF wastelands of Tumblr.
We've all heard the schoolchildren's chant that goes, basically, "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage," or some iteration thereof. Of course, in this day and age, that's not always the chronology at all.
Chickification: This is a term our dear friend Rush Limbaugh adores, considering it some sort of powerful way to demean women. But for having made it up, it's still rather unclear what it means. And why should we take his word for what chickification is?
Shulamith Firestone, the author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, has died at the age of 67, apparently of natural causes, The New York Times' Margolit Fox.
The boys on the bus are kind of a boys' club, as a new study from the Women's Media Center and the 4th Estate Project found that 72 percent of newspapers articles covering the general election between April 16 and August 25 were written by men.
Today, the Internet learned about what it's like to be a female technology writer from the perspective of one of the two women who blog for the massively popular tech site Gizmodo: Sometimes, it really sucks—and not just because that's what so many commenters tell women to do.
Feminist Ryan Gosling, Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, by Danielle Henderson, a book that pairs "feminist statements" with photos of Ryan Gosling, is out on Tuesday. What happens when "feminism" goes viral?
On magazine stands in America the cover of Cosmpolitan's blaring sex tips are — though crass — commonplace. But what about in India? Or in the Middle East?
Today in the New York Times Luisita Lopez Torregrosa writes that while the top corporate roles like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, and Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman stand as a win for women, the women of Wall Street are enjoying no such enlightenment.
New research is always popping up to enlighten (or terrify, or depress) us about what all of this time spent on the Internet is doing to our brains. What does it do, though, to not only our brains but also to our emotions and characters and personalities?
Stereotypes are powerful because they're easy, which is why we see them standing in again and again for "real" human qualities and characters. But they are also insidious, demonstrating so many ways to go wrong, and so few to go right.
Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman has already sold 400,000 copies in 16 countries, and tomorrow the American edition will be released. Talking to her is nearly as much fun as reading her book.
John Bryson, who resigned as President Obama's commerce secretary last month after he was involved in two hit-and-runs, won't face charges for the incident, The Associated Press reports.
Lil Wayne explained that he pulled Nicki Minaj from Summer Jam because...women ought to be respected.
Pixar's new movie, Brave, is out Friday, and it features the first girl lead the studio has ever had in 17 years of existence. Her name is Merida, she is Scottish, and she is a princess.
Gloria Allred, a name we're accustomed to seeing in the news, has been in the news even more than usual the past few days.
I read Newsweek's much-discussed Katie Roiphe article, "Spanking Goes Mainstream," so you don't have to.
A Maxim magazine an article entitled "How to Cure a Feminist" is inspiring lots of people around the Internet to get very angry. But this article is from 2003.
Women who fear they'll never find a husband because they're "too smart," "too well educated," "intimidating," or "too successful" should stop being afraid—in fact, we'd argue they shouldn't have been afraid in the first place.
Why Haley's 'little girl' remark points to a bigger conservative 'feminist' problem
Wasserman Schultz talks politics and West takes it personal
A hit piece on Bachmann arouses some unlikely defenders
SlutWalk, the feminist web site, is not happy with a tennis tournament ad
Scientist Richard Dawkins lands himself in blog war
Manal al-Sharif issues statement after being released from detention
"We feel insulted by your description of our workplace," they write in a letter
Women's groups rallied in Paris Sunday to condemn Strauss-Kahn's reflexive apologists
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