Pew's new research on the role of women in the household finds that 40 percent of homes with children rely on a mother's income. That's substantial, and probably unexpected. But the data behind that trend — and the response to it — show how employment and gender roles in the United States continue to shift away from the Leave It to Beaver model. Murphy Brown is winning.
Men can blow dry hair and wear makeup just like women can. There has been progress for makeup-wearing men. Will we ever reach a place when the "What, men are doing this, too?" trend story can retire?
In the upcoming New York Times Sunday Review, American novelist Amanda Filipacchi writes of a recent discovery that further evinces the issue of sexism as it persists in the literary world. This time, it's happening on Wikipedia.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey reveals some disconcerting, if not terribly surprising, facts about how women feel and are treated in the workplace—things that many people already know, and many have worked to change.
Will women ever stop giving unasked-for advice to other women about when to get married? And why do we insist on engaging in this cycle? A reflection on the end of the sad "Princeton Mom" meme.
A social trend story is, at best, a way to inspire conversation about a broader topic of interest to a lot of people, usually a topic somehow connected to The Way We Live Now. But what happens to the subject of such a story in the aftermath of that conversation? We spoke to her to find out.
When CNN went to confirm Silicon Valley's diversity problem with actual Silicon Valley companies, most of them refused to share employee data. And sharing diversity numbers — or a lack thereof — is exactly how you fix a diversity problem in the tech world.
A note to @MarsCuriosity's 1,270,220 followers on Twitter: NASA's intrepid rover is a she. The women behind her massively popular social media presence confirmed today that "she" is the proper pronoun for referring to the Mars explorer.
In 2012, enough female writers are still changing their names to appear as men to merit a piece in The Wall Street Journal today. Which is to say, there is still a long way to go.
Fathers are doing more of the family shopping, and more of the caregiving, too. So are these new Barbie construction sets for girls, or for their dads?
What does age mean when the contraints of being old are evolving every day? It means it's getting better all the time.
In his Salon piece, "I was a male spinster," Tim Gihring speaks to a feeling common to men and women of a certain age who haven't yet seen fit to do the proposal-and-ring thing in the time expected of them.
The Washington Post today allowed our female anchor class to become some harbinger of a gender-equal clothing trend (except not quite), and that does the whole topic a disservice.
Despite rumors that his luck with woman has changed, Mitt Romney has continued to fail at closing the sizable gender gap among voters with only a week to go until the election.
Discovered: Men more likely to be attracted to—and project attraction on—their female friends; Office of Naval Research builds mechanical fish; smallest photographs; diagnosing sex addiction.
According to the latest poll numbers, the gender gap is on track to hit historic highs in the upcoming presidential election.
In a profile by Ayelet Waldman in Marie Claire, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about her former employee Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote The Atlantic's cover story on why women still can't have it all, with some direct words: "Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs."
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.
The old stereotype that men just don't get colors--it's fuchsia/sage/turquoise, not pink/green/blue!--apparently is based on an element of truth, according to this beautiful interactive of the way people name colors by DataPointed.net.
Illustrator Santiago Ortiz has created an interactive looking at the proportion of edits on individual Wikipedia articles made by men vs. women, and it turns out that the gender divide on "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is even starker than we thought.
You might say, haven't there always been men's departments? Do not underestimate the power of the new gender-based selling. As Eric Wilson writes in the New York Times, "it would seem that the fight for gender equality has finally come to the place where one might least expect it."
Are all men potential pedophiles? If you're a passenger on a Qantas Airways or Virgin Australia flight, the answer is yes, as both airlines have policies forbidding adult men from sitting next to unaccompanied minors.
In the ongoing debate over the byline gender gap, the July 29 issue of the New York Times Book Review, the "How-To" issue, has attracted some attention, inspiring a Tumblr of How-Tos from women.
Someone has unearthed footage from the early times of man, when beings were only just starting to confront the complicated realities of scientific experimentation and wearing lipstick at the same time.
An artist is counting down the years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds left of her biological clock in hopes of inspiring discussions about fertility for everyone.
Caster Semenya, the South African athlete whose masculine look and testosterone levels caused a stir back in 2009, when she won an 800-meter world championship, has gotten more feminine looking over the last few years—because she has to.
There's a further gender gap in media, and this one extends beyond the bylines themselves.
Even though money sits at the heart of the most fundamental human issues, we fear talking about it, quite possibly making money issues, including pay equity, worse.
Every couple of weeks another report comes out with a new statistic that demonstrates what we should all know by now: women writers are not being published as often as men. But we're still working at getting to the heart of the matter.
On April 3, the finalists of the National Magazine Awards were announced. They were very, very manly.
Not only are nail polishes and lacquers reaching new heights in fashion, there are gender breakthroughs happening as we write: Men are going to nail salons.
For as long as men and women have been being friends, people have been asking, can men and women be friends?
If environmental stewardship turned into some sort of epic battle of the sexes, men would get clobbered.
Despite advance tickets selling like crazy and hype for the books and film rivaling that of Twilight and the Harry Potter franchise, Lionsgate is worried that young men won't see The Hunger Games.
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.
Does that help explain why women are earning more degrees than men?
Researchers have discovered a way to detect the gender of tweeters
The social network added new privacy setting so users no longer have to declare their gender
Finding could help improve mental health treatment in gay populations, doctor says
Commentators quibble with her outlook on the business world's gender gap
At White House Pride Month event last night, the sex columnist stepped forward
Two new studies say they have powers far greater than anyone would expect
The debate over Mara Hvistendahl's new book rages on
Gender preference isn't only a foreign problem
White men dominate the field of top-level Congressional aides
No arrests yet reported from today's Women2Drive protest
On Obama's visit to Puerto Rico and the real gay girls in Damascus
That's out of the 28 comedy acts performing at the festival this year
Ann Friedman battles male-oriented media coverage through mockery
Delta Kappa Epsilon won't be on campus for five years
Turns out, your mom was right about Abercrombie & Fitch
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