The terrifyingly intelligent and beautiful Jennifer Siebel Newsom has launched a project (on Kickstarter, duh) to fund her documentary about the pressures of masculinity on boys today. The film, titled "The Mask You Live In," examines how societal standards of boys and men being emotionally unattached, among other…
In her classic article, Teddy Bear Patriarchy, Donna Haraway examined the arrangement of the taxidermied animals in the American Museum of Natural History mammal hall in the first half of the 1900s. She observed that the dioramas consistently featured nuclear families with strong fathers alert for dangers and…
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.…
Reader Becky Sayers writes, "I found this on 10 yr old [daughter] Eliza's bulletin board this morning in her room— when I asked her about it, she said it was an "editorial" she wrote last night after looking at the miniboden children's clothing catalog." With permission from both mother and daughter, we happily share…
I've always wanted to do a "mash-up" of the words used in commercials for so-called boys' toys. I did a little bit of this in my book, but now, thanks to Wordle, I can present my findings in graphic form. This is not an exhaustive record; it's really just a starting point, but the results certainly are interesting.
Did you know that not all female softball players are gay? Bravely busting this and other sexuality myths is ... a reality show, casting now.
One men's group is trying to address an oft-ignored problem: lacking the close friendships many women have, old dudes often get lonely.
An exchange between Nancy Smallwood and the marketing guy from a stationery store called Paperchase has been making the rounds: She complained to the company about its gendered products and received a what she calls a "rude" response.
Researchers have found that a nose spray containing the hormone oxytocin increases men's feelings of empathy and even helps them learn. Cue the gender stereotypes!
In the Barbie & The Three Musketeers movie Barbie laments, "No girl has ever been a Musketeer before!" Maybe that's because Barbie thinks, "This riding outfit is the cutest!" while Ken says, "I want to be an inventor!" [Sociological Images]
New research shows our gender stereotypes may be so ingrained that they influence how we see faces — yet what we believe about sex differences may be more influential than biology.
There are many lessons to be learned in the Lilly's Kids Holiday catalog, with stuff for kids ages 2 and up! For instance: Some toys/jobs are for girls, while other toys/jobs are for boys.
Former Bush I speechwriter Mark Lange has this sweet little editorial about how women should take over running the world because we're just all so much nicer and more humble then men and stuff.
As if there hasn't been quite enough said about the work-life choices women get to make, Nicola Brewer, the chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission in Great Britain, ignited a debate about maternity leave and its effect on women's careers this weekend that has landed her in a spot of hot water. Recently,…
