Everybody wins when NASA does something good, and the news that the program selected its highest percentage, ever, of female astronauts for its new class is no exception.
In these progressive times in which women and men are delaying marriage and children, too, the topic of female fertility — and how it's not going to be there forever, ladies! — seems to come up again and again. But what really are we supposed to do with this information?
The RedState editor has tripled down on his claim that since males dominate females in "the natural world," it's only "science" that male humans should be the breadwinners of the American family. He was just stating the "facts," he says. But he was not stating facts at all.
The fact that 40 percent of women are now the primary American breadwinners is a crime against nature, according to a very upset panel of distraught men on Fox Business. And it is very much possible that the offense these four Fox pundits are really concerned about is the one threatening their future earnings potential. Just look at Megyn Kelly.
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.
Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times and the first woman to hold that position, is literally a poster child for Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In mantra. And, yet, that doesn't seem to matter to many of her defenders today, who also happen to dislike Sheryl Sandberg and her Lean In movement because it only represents corporate power women just like Abramson.
Is a Tumblr that collects instances of groups curiously lacking women the best way to change a deeply rooted problem or is it just making the case for tokenism?
Modern women face a stark choice: either give up their careers early to have loving families or die alone and be eaten by their pets. But we feel we must point out that this modern condition is not modern at all.
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.
President Obama revealed his secret adherence to fascist beauty standards when he praised the female California attorney general for being, like, mad hot at a DNC fundraiser Thursday afternoon in Atherton, California.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder does not look the same in boys and girls. Women with the disorder tend to be less hyperactive and impulsive, more disorganized, scattered, forgetful, and introverted. The misunderstanding stem from the early studies of the disorder which, a research says, "were based on really hyperactive young white boys."
Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton has some advice for the ladies on the letters-to-the-editor page of today's Daily Princetonian, and it's terrible advice, since there are much better elitist institutions in which to go rich husband hunting — and right in the Ivy League!
In The New York Times' telling, the City Council speaker and mayoral hopeful who happens to be openly gay, is "temperamental and surprisingly volatile." The piece have some saying, "This story would never have been written if Christine Quinn was a man."
Don't worry, the writer behind today's offensive-to-women-in-technology-Internet-thing, "The 40 Hottest Women in Tech" slideshow over at Complex, thinks the slideshow is crap, too.
The cloud-based email startup SendGrid confirmed in a blog post Friday that it fired developer relations "evangelist" Adria Richards because of a tweet she sent about what she thought was sexist behavior at the PyCon developers conference, setting an unfortunate precedent for a tech industry with diversity problems but no shortage of "dongle" jokes.
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.
Today in the tech world's warped view of gender "norms": The cloud-based e-mail service SendGrid just fired developer Adria Richards, apparently for reporting sexual harassment after hackers made it clear they didn't approve of her complaining.
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.
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?
The company that just used bridesmaids in heels to demonstrate why a female might want to buy a piece of technology? Yeah, it has a history of female stereotypes in advertising. And it just so happened to coincide with the launch of an "iPhone-killer" Galaxy phone line.
The Galaxy S IV launch event verged on offensive when the emcee used a group of bridesmaids to illustrate all the woman things the phone can do, like cooking and weight loss and wedding planning — oh my.
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.
There is one foolproof way to avoid an increasingly terrifying group of perverted cyberspies who are hijacking (mostly) women's computer cameras: Buy a new computer that has a light that goes on whenever your webcam is in use, whether you know it or not.
This interactive map demonstrates how women's voting rights and roles in the political process of countries around the world have changed over time. Which is to say, slowly, but still: progress.
After reading Sheryl Sandberg's "feminist manifesto" Lean In, you get the eerie impression that she knew what her critics would say.
We've heard a lot of falsehoods on the topic this year, from women being too weak to men not wanting to poop in front of them. But The National Review's Heather Mac Donald has a new one: Women can't serve in combat because when they get raped by fellow soldiers, they get too depressed.
Least compelling of all the arguments against Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new tyrannical order — outlawing permanent work-from-home arrangements for her employees — come from people who feel like their particular work-life patters are about to be upset .
While we were talking about the barriers outside of Silicon Valley facing certain kinds of people when trying to make it in, Etsy was busy fixing the problem.
Gun advocates spent their Wednesday fighting on Capitol Hill for the right of female civilians to carry semi-automatic assault weapons while their compatriots on the right are mourning the decision to allow female soldiers to carry guns on the battlefield.
For much of the past year, the hottest debate in the world of women's stuff has been, Can women have it all?, as memorably answered in the negative by The Atlantic's July cover story last year. More than six months later, The New Republic's Noreen Malone, as part of that mag's relaunch, has suggested that "Beyoncé says yes" they can.
One of the recurring arguments against women serving in combat appears on its face to be just good common horse sense: women just don't have the upper body strength to carry a heavy male soldier out of combat. The thing is, you don't need much upper body strength to carry a guy out of combat.
The first annual Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day has been canceled because of a number of "valid risks" with using a hashtag to prove a point about the way readers often objectify female tech writers.
The Pentagon has ended its ban on women serving in combat, and while the changes might not take effect for years, some women are already gloating on Facebook about the chance to wear an award that basically says "I was in the sh*t."
Serious people won't pay attention to you if your only objection to women serving in combat if you just say, "No sir, I don't like it!" So people with dated ideas about what women can do are forced to invent objections that look at least superficially rooted in fact, instead of sexism. Closer examination reveals they are dumb.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will reportedly lift the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat — even though women actually have been serving in war zones for years.
There are several key differences between President Obama's cabinet picks in 2009 and in 2013. This term there are more longtime Obama allies. This term he's showing more "confidence in his choices," picking fights with Republicans. And this term he's picking a lot of white males.
Mitt Romney lost women voters by 12 percentage points, but he lost women donors by way more.
Mother Jones noticed a discrepancy in the "notable deaths" lists assembled by major newspapers: the majority of the "notable" people listed were men.
Women held a mere 14.3 percent of executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, according to new data. That 1.4 percent increase from last year represents a "glacial pace," even in the year of the new Yahoo CEO.
The most wonderful time of the year is also the time of the year in which we are bombarded with the most sexist commercials on television. Let's take a stroll through the Ghosts of Christmas Jewelry Ads Past.
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.
So, amazingly, this afternoon the UFC crowned its first women's champion and signed its first openly gay fighter.
It's not equal yet, but it's a start. Except for the whole salary thing.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives picked the leaders of 19 committees for the upcoming 113th Congress yesterday and every one of them is a white male.
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.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Obama may have won the female vote in last night's election, but there will also now be a record number of women serving in the Senate next January when one in five members of the upper chamber will be female.
The New York Times decided to do its best Carrie Bradshaw impersonation for one trend story today and is alerting ladies and gentlemen, but mostly ladies (we think), to one important fact: dating has changed and it's good news for dudes.
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