Of all the various schemes to encourage more young women to pursue careers in STEM fields, a new six-week online mentoring program that aims to connect young women with female mentors already established in STEM fields seems especially promising.
In its ceaseless effort to "provide a safe environment for working women," i.e. keep the workplace entirely segregated, Saudi Arabia's labor ministry has ordered about 100 lingerie shops in the capital of Riyadh to close for having male staff members.
Science, as it is wont to do sometimes, has landed like an innocent little butterfly on the shoulders of a pretty dismal finding: appealing to certain gender stereotypes can be just as confidence-boosting for men as it is confidence-sapping for women, even and especially when those stereotypes have no basis in truth.…
The European Parliament has delayed a hearing on a nominee to one of the overwrought European Central Bank's top posts in an effort to underscore the fact that there's a glaring absence of female leadership when it comes to the eurozone's monetary authority. According to the AP, Yves Mersch, the head of Luxemborg's…
The U.K.'s Royal Veterinary College has decided that, since not enough white men are enrolling in its program, it ought to recruit them more aggressively. To that end, the college has included white men among the underrepresented minority groups that it targets in publicity materials, which have been specially crafted…
Saudi Arabia is so committed to its policy of segregating the genders that it is going to build an entire city just for women to work in all by themselves. The women-only industrial city, to be built within the Eastern Province city of Hofuf, is just the first of what could be many zones that the Gulf kingdom aims to…
In case you haven't heard yet because you're one of those New York City tunnel dwellers or you're exclusively a Winter Olympics person, the U.S. women's teams at this summer's games have cleaned up, accounting for 56 percent of all Team USA's medals, and 66 percent of its golds. Their success is being touted as a big…
Even though women may be joining big, mahogany-redolent law firms with less zeal than in the not-so-distant past, those already working at such law firms are being promoted to equity partnerships at the about the speed at which a spoonful of old honey travels from the ass of a little plastic bear to its nose. Still,…
Women-focused tech conferences are nothing new, but Google's recent "Women Techmakers" panel was noteworthy because it wasn't hosted by a standalone advocacy group — it took place as part of Google's gigantic, currently ongoing I/O conference. During the discussion, top Google execs like VPs Susan Wojcicki and Megan…
After you watched the Title IX 40th anniversary fireworks dim in the summer night sky and you brushed the Title IX 40th anniversary barbecue off of your teeth, you probably settled into bed and reflected on all the opportunities Title IX has offered female students. Still, even 40 years after Richard Nixon helped…
Not only 17-year-old was Kirtana Vallabhaneni named the UK's "Top Young Scientist of the Year" for her research identifying harmful cells that potentially cause pancreatic cancer, she beat out three other young women at Birmingham's Big Bang Fair, a fact that suggests growing opportunities for women in science-related…
After being introduced by Meryl Streep, the woman who will probably play her in a biopic, Hillary Clinton closed the third annual Women in the World summit at the Lincoln Center in New York on Saturday with a call for women in the United States to set an example for women across the world in asserting their right to…
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal asked a question that the current leisure class of baby boomer pensioners is apparently fixated on: in the greenhouse, do women finally have an spouse-free space equivalent to the man cave? You're goddamn right they do.
If you live in New York and you set your apartment on fire in some ill-advised (read: don't set your apartment on fire) effort to collect on a suspiciously bloated insurance policy you took out on your second-hand furniture, a firewoman — spellcheck does not, by the way, recognize this apparently alien expression —…
A new study provides scientific evidence for what many may have long suspected: an individual person's sexist beliefs can actually influence society as a whole. Well, crap.
Two tribes in Northeast India are as demographically and genetically similar as they could get, with one big difference: One is patrilineal and the other matrilineal. Guess which one had a bigger gender gap in spatial reasoning tests?
New research shows people have more sex in countries with greater gender equality. Some think this is because women put a high "price" on sex — but there may be other explanations.
A piece published in the Guardian yesterday has forced me to come to terms with something I've been fighting for a long time, which is this: I think male cleavage is kind of hot.
According to a new poll, 63% of Americans think "the U.S. still has a long way to go to reach complete gender quality. While three-quarters of women (74%) agree with this, so do just over half of men (52%)."
Following a judge's ruling that, for the purposes of gender equality, cheerleading is not a sport, several critics have come out against Title IX, arguing that it is no longer helping college athletics. Is Title IX ready for retirement?
