So, some people did an experiment with some monkeys. This gets important for feminism later on. First the researchers let the monkeys hang out for a while and become monkey-friends. Then they put two monkeys in cages, side by side, and they had the monkeys perform a simple task (hand a pebble to a researcher) in… Read… 11/28/12 4:40pm 11/28/12 4:40pm

Everybody sit down. The United States is not number one in the world when it comes to something. I know, it's crazy. According to the Oct 23 2012 Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum, we're only 22nd best in gender equality, right after Canada and before Mozambique. And since the United States… Read… 10/24/12 11:30pm 10/24/12 11:30pm

As it just so happens, men who don't define their masculinity by how many dragons they've strangled to death, how many cans of pizza-flavored spray cheese they can suck down in five minutes, or how few tears they shed during the scene in Big Fish when Ewan McGregor plants his ladyfriend a quadrangle's worth of… Read… 7/19/12 2:10pm 7/19/12 2:10pm

Your vagina is an expensive anatomical accessory. In addition to the tampons and gynecologists, over the course of your lifetime, you can expect your vagina to gobble up thousands of dollars worth of possible earnings that you would have made yourself if only you were a man. Unsurprisingly, the pesky pay gap endures… Read… 7/12/12 2:45pm 7/12/12 2:45pm

The economy totally sucks. It sucks so much that if you turn on any news channel or flip to the op-ed page of that newspaper you're not reading because physical, page-turning newspapers are really only good for getting ink under your fingernails, someone will be shouting or writing, "Argh! Economy! Euro! Debt crisis!… Read… 6/09/12 1:00pm 6/09/12 1:00pm

A new report issued by a Swedish labor agency indicates that female managers don't reduce the pay gap between male and female employees. If not even perfect, stoic, ice cold, blond, Ikea-decorated egalitarian socialist paradise Sweden can overcome the pesky gendered pay gap, then what faint hope do we have in the land… Read… 12/20/11 5:10pm 12/20/11 5:10pm

This morning, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski was on CNBC promoting her book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, And Getting What You're Worth. She took the opportunity to reveal that at one point, she was making one-fourteenth of what co-host and show namesake Joe Scarborough was making. Read… 5/05/11 4:40pm 5/05/11 4:40pm

Up until recently, Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern was most famous for her homophobia and creationism. Now she's added racism and sexism to the mix — just for variety, we assume. Her "apology" for remarks on affirmative action is also a treasure. Read… 4/29/11 10:15am 4/29/11 10:15am

Happy Equal Pay Day! Let's, um, "celebrate" the wage gap with some visual ways to understand what it is and why it exists. You can also check out Marlo Thomas's take on the progress from her 59-cent pin, and how far we still have to go. Or you can watch it put to song, Gaga style. Read… 4/12/11 2:45pm 4/12/11 2:45pm

The good: Women's salaries rose, shrinking the gap to 10.2%. The bad: There's still a 10.2% gap. Discuss… 12/08/10 10:56am 12/08/10 10:56am

• According to a study out of the UK, women spend three years of their lives cooking, which is more than double the amount of time men spend in front of the stove. But there is good news:
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• As expected, the French Assembly has indeed voted in favor of banning the full facial veil in public spaces; the measure extends to both burqas and niqabs. The bill is expected to be ratified by the Senate in September. Read… 7/13/10 5:12pm 7/13/10 5:12pm

• A 55-year-old British man was arrested and charged with shameless indecency after he was spotted by a neighbor jumping naked on his trampoline. Read… 7/08/10 5:30pm 7/08/10 5:30pm

In addition to the obvious racist and xenophobic implications of the new Arizona immigration law, in addition to the obvious concerns that this unlawful law targets residents based on the hue of their skin and the language on their lips… Read… 6/02/10 12:30pm 6/02/10 12:30pm

• An 81-year-old grandfather from Switzerland has been put under house arrest by his family after a fall from a plum tree allegedly turned him into a sex addict. But maybe his family is just mad about something else. Read… 5/21/10 5:30pm 5/21/10 5:30pm

Naysayers will tell you the gender wage gap is entirely a result of women choosing different professions, or that it's ceased to exist at all. Finally, there's a concise explainer to debunk these claims and give us some real numbers. Read… 4/21/10 9:30am 4/21/10 9:30am

Via NPR's Alyson Hurt. Learn more here. Discuss… 4/19/10 11:40am 4/19/10 11:40am

When phone sex operator becomes a stock job in Valentine's Day, you know the inside story on it has lost some of its edge. But has it been told on Twitter yet? Read… 2/26/10 5:00pm 2/26/10 5:00pm

Elie Mystal critiques Patricia Gillette's assertions that the recession is the time to make changes in the billable hours and promotion systems at law firms that will benefit women. Jeze-lawyers, weigh in. [Above the Law] Discuss… 4/28/09 5:20pm 4/28/09 5:20pm