The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has gathered data comparing countries all over the world on their track record of gender differences in various skills, degrees, work, and wages. It's an interesting cross section of opportunity, gender imbalance, and culture. The OECD even took into…
Last night, Lena Dunham took to the stage over at 30 Rock as the host of Saturday Night Live on International Women's Day, and she did not hold back. The episode had some standard Dunham nudity, enough of her saying "I just feel like" to last a lifetime of therapy, and even a planned parenthood shoutout! In her opening…
Hey, America! Do you want to see struggling twenty-somethings milling about in front of New York's most uninspiring architecture? Have I got a deal for you.
Astronaut, computer engineer, Hawaiian haver of "fun" —Barbie's held more jobs for which she's clearly unqualified than Ryan Seacrest. But all of her career costumes were supposed to be a means to an end, a way for girls to play with a doll who would encourage them to pursue their big dreams. Turns out, career-having…
Congratulations to Adam Driver of Girls, who just landed the role of the villain in the new Star Wars movies, directed by J.J. Abrams.
Before Girls was an award-winning mega hit for HBO, Lena Dunham was an aspiring actress and filmmaker, coming off the success of Tiny Furniture, a film festival darling. In a recent interview with Bill Simmons, Dunham shared a rather embarrassing anecdote about one ill-fated job she had with the cable giant, before she …
Last night's Girls took Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna to a beach town on the North Fork of Long Island where they got drunk, fought and — most memorably — learned and performed a delightfully ridiculous dance routine. If you're a fan of what you saw and want to replicate it on your own nightmarish weekend away,…
Whether you're boycotting the Sochi Olympics for political reasons or just really, really bored with snow-based athletics (come on, what's wrong with you?) you still need to make sure you check out this Girls-themed Olympic Tumblr.
For the women of Girls, it’s a rocky road to redemption; conquering their collective quarter life crisis is the least of their worries. I mean, what if these girls have serious issues? The story lines have been so tumultuous lately — from Hannah's amazing inability to grieve to Marnie's incredible uselessness — that…
If you're itching to hear some new Miguel (and let's face it, who isn't!) then this is your best solution. Off the newest soundtrack to the HBO show Girls, entitled Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do ..., Miguel's song, "Simplethings" is pretty damn good.
When Hannah's editor died, all of his projects—including Hannah's e-book—died with him. Now she's forced to find a new home for her memoir, otherwise no one will get the chance to read "everything that's ever happened" to the 25-year-old.
Ever concerned with the threat the female form poses to the morality of children, the BBC has issued new wardrobe guidelines for female hosts of kids' programming on the network. Among the banned items? That serial murderer of youthful innocence known as "red lipstick."
That Hannah Horvath is a Gawker reader and Jezebel commenter is undoubtedly quite upsetting to the many Gawker and Jezebel commenters who've disparaged Girls, its characters, and Lena Dunham herself. But it's perhaps the most clever dig Dunham has issued to her haters yet.
This may not be as illuminating a dip into architecture as some of you may have hoped for, but it is interesting in a Sims kind of way. Haven't you always wanted to know exactly how much space your favorite (or least favorite) sitcom characters occupied? Didn't you always want to have a better idea of just how far Adam …
Newsweek just ran a monster-length piece about tween girls and sex called Sex and the Single Tween, finally giving readers access to the enduring question: So are Our Nation's Precious Little Girls sluts, or what?
Another reason to feel bad for today's little girls: one day, the straight ones will grow up to face a dating selection consisting of doted upon nightmare boys raised by parents who used the power of the internet to validate their sneaking suspicion that their lil' All Star might be a genius. Meanwhile, the girls'…
Last season, Lena Dunham did a fantastic job of engaging critics of Girls by addressing their critique of the show on the show. This season has been a little lighter (so far), so now that she's addressed the more serious criticism, she's moved onto Internet commenters.
Sasheer Zamata, SNL’s newest cast member, is still releasing fresh YouTube material despite her coveted new TV contract. Here the comedienne plays a young woman named Madison who has begun a career of being a Girls tour guide, shuttling fans of the HBO show around Brooklyn hot spots like Cafe Grumpy. As Madison tells…
Rashida Jones and Zosia Mamet are joining Glamour as monthly contributors. While I'm excited — I like Jones and Mamet is fine on Girls — Jones' column will be about relationships. Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive said in a statement that Rashida will be offering a "one-of-a-kind—a smart graphic-novel-style treatment of the…
Season two of Girls left us with a brilliantly inverted grand gesture: Adam, like any classic rom-com cad after his Big Realization, raced through the streets to "rescue" Hannah, his true and abiding love...from the throes of her severe mental illness. To me, it was perfect—illuminating the disconnect between Hollywood…
