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•  Sad, sad news: Going Rogue beat Hillary Clinton's memoir in sales with 700,000 to Clinton's 600,000. However, the awesome Secretary of State received a much bigger advance of $8 mil, while Palin was only offered five. •  More »
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An NPR piece on last weekend's Bay Area "Butch Voices" conference shows that female-born butches face some of the same stereotypes men do — and some very different ones. More »
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Today is Women's Equality Day, marking the 89th anniversary of women's suffrage. In some ways, we've come so far, but in other ways, we have such a long way to go. More »
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As we move toward greater equality of the sexes, you would think that the old stereotype that women are more cooperative, nurturing and emotional while men are more competitive and assertive would lessen as women gain more equal rights and similar jobs. That's why psychologists have been struggling to explain why personality tests from people all over the world show that in wealthy modern societies with more equality of the sexes, the personality differences between men and women are actually becoming more pronounced. In a new study, researchers say they've found the answer: as we level the playing field for men and women, some innate personality traits from our hunter-gatherer days are being revived. More »
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