Fran Rodgers, a pioneer of the work/family movement and workplace flexibility, urges Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer to reverse her ban on telecommuting. Dear Marissa, You don’t know me, so let me explain why I feel I am qualified to give you advice. I was a pioneer of the work/family movement and workplace flexibility and a […]
This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. As we consider of the question of the “end of gender” it’s important to think beyond the shifts we see in society and consider the […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same. For every action there is a reaction. For every trend, there is a counter-trend. Maureen Dowd’s column in this Sunday’s NY Times brought all these little sayings to mind and affirmed their truth. She describes new shows that have recently been green lighted by Hollywood […]
Why is it that no one freaks out when young girls play with trucks or engage in sports but when a boy in an ad has pink nail polish a brouhaha follows? Why is it that women have increasingly moved into previously male professions like law and medicine but nursing remains only 8% male? The […]
So much for all the hype about the He-session and The End of Men. As an article in the NYTs points out, the net effect of the recession and all the political steps taken to address it and deficits will increase the disparity in the economic status between men and women. England has been undergoing […]
I was surprisingly touched by this simple, wise letter by Dan Mulhern to his son, on how to be a Real Man today. Surrounded by a recent sea of articles heralding the end of men, or decrying a male/masculinity crisis, its easy to lose site of how liberating a moment this could be for men […]
This post debates whether there is harm in a mom (Martha) watching the royal wedding with her daughter. In fact, Martha has made quite a to-do of it which includes keeping her daughter home from pre-school to celebrate. Patrick Malone, clearly a feminist man, argues effectivly that there is enough fairy princess stuff out in […]
This article caught my eye because of its headline in the UK newspaper The Daily Mail. It is the word shame that got to me and the way it was used. It annoyed me given the fact that US women are doing a lot better on advancement than women throughout Europe and the word shame […]
The consistent finding that women are more anxious than men (in fact, twice as prone to anxiety according to many studies) is endlessly fascinating, albeit a bit concerning. At the heart of this finding is a very controversial nurture vs. nature debate – the type that underlies the most layered and persistent gender questions. Personally, […]
Unprotected sex calms a woman more than sex when a condom is used? Who the heck would even think to study this? It reminds me of old psychological studies of women designed to address women’s “hysteria”- then thought to be a widespread problem. The head of a surgeons group then went ahead and wrote an […]
Ladies, if you have money and independence, are you really placing priority on looking for a man who is hot? A new study apparently says that wealthier women now value looks more than financial security since they can really take care of themselves. Men, meanwhile, have not changed much. They want younger, beautiful women. So […]
Ok, here’s a real puzzler. Is it ok for women to post pictures of hot guys on the Tube (the British subway system) without their knowledge? Is it a step toward equality or away from it for women to appreciate and share pictures of men based on their looks alone? I think this site is […]
