This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Five Myths About Marriage by Stephanie Coontz of The Washington Post asks: Is marriage really better for the community? 2. S/He by Jesse Green of New York Magazine says parents of transgender children are faced […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. In virtually every occupation, women earn less than men of comparable experience, education, and seniority. From the moment a woman throws her graduation cap into the air to the moment she retires, she earns less than a similar man. This difference is commonly quantified as a […]
Katerina Zacharia discusses why using the term “on ramp” to describe women returning to the workforce after having children is inaccurate, at best, and insulting, at worst. I’m troubled that we use the term “on ramp” to describe women returning back to the workforce after prioritizing childrearing. I’m specifically uncomfortable that we locate women who […]
Andrew Smiler, Ph.D., asks if a shift in gender stereotypes or economics is responsible for the increase in men in women-dominated professions in the United States. Over the last decade, the number of men in female-dominated professions has increased notably, according to New York Times reporters Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff. Men are becoming teachers, […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Wall Street is notorious for its lack of female power brokers. Catalyst reports that women make up only 15% of executive or senior-level officers in investment banking and securities companies. The fall of one of these women results in public scrutiny. Ina Drew of JPMorgan Chase […]
Title IX—legislation that created opportunities for women and girls to play sports in school—may have been instituted in the United States 40 years ago, but there’s still plenty of inequality on the playing field. After a high school boys’ baseball team forfeited a game recently rather than play against a girl, Hugo Schwyzer explores the […]
Lynn Beisner discusses the defiant stance Melinda Gates recently took against the Catholic Church by stating that she and husband Bill Gates have sex without the intent to have children, and funding millions of doses of birth control for women. Last month, Melinda Gates, who is well-known for her avoidance of the spotlight, addressed a […]
In response to North Carolina’s vote yesterday to define marriage as between “one man and one woman,” Lyla Cicero sends a message of support to all the queer kids of the state and the rest of the country, comparing the decision to a form of bullying. This letter is to all the queer kids, the […]
