This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.
1. Can A Kids’ Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering? by Rebecca Rosen of The Atlantic says: Meet GoldieBlox, the lady engineer who hopes to unseat the princesses from their toy-store thrones.
2. The Unbridled Shower: Celebrating Divorce by Judith Newman of The New York Times says that with a 50-50 chance of a first marriage lasting, there seems to be a societal desire to commemorate, and even celebrate, what has become an increasingly common milestone in people’s lives.
3. Why I Eloped by Torie Bosch of Slate.com says big weddings are overrated and expensive, and even small-scale weddings are more pageant than sincerity.
4. You May Call It Cheating, But We Don’t by Ada Calhoun of The New York Times says: My husband doesn’t object to my wandering eye, allowing me to explore the boundaries of our marriage.
5. Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal on TheAtlantic.com offers an excerpt from Jessica Valenti’s new book Why Have Kids? in which she examines how the ingrained expectation that women should want to become parents is detrimental and unhealthy.
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