Role Reboot

Are Women "Pornified" By Popular Media?

A new study by University of Buffalo sociologists suggests the answer is yes, indeed. This may be well-tread territory, but we think we need to go there anyway. One reason is what we call the “tyranny of the shoulds.” The study, entitled “Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of […]

Undecided: Do Women Now Have Too Many Career and Life Options?

Excerpted from Undecided, Seal Press, copyright 2011 by Barbara Kelley and Shannon Kelley. Commitment phobia. Analysis paralysis. Grass-is-greener syndrome. You name it, women today are plagued by it. Unlike our mothers, these women were born of a generation blessed with limitless choices — a generation that’s found that the more choices we have, the harder it […]