“Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Thought They’d Be”

“Work-family policies strongly affected women’s choices, but not men’s. Ms. Thébaud said that occurred because women disproportionately benefit from the policies since they are expected to be caregivers, while men are stigmatized for…

“Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age”

“Across thousands of films in our dataset, it was hard to find a subset that didn’t over-index male. Even romantic comedies have dialogue that is, on average, 58% male. For example, Pretty Woman and 10 Things I…

“Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y”

“Ah, but there’s a weasel word there: “normal”. And with sex chromosomes, perceptions of “normal” play a huge role — not only in what we think that they are and do, but in the very existence of the…

“Boys Have Deep Emotional Lives”

“We have a very hard time seeing the signs of how and when boys want to talk to us. We also have a hard time — even though we think we don’t — acknowledging that boys have deep emotional lives. We believe that because we can’t see it, it’s not there…

“The Politics of Being “Ugly”: Between Being Catcalled and Erased”

“There is a hierarchy of deservingness put on women, girls, femmes, and non-masculine bodies that delegate a culture of misogyny on a violent spectrum. Women who are categorized as beautiful should expect to be…

“‘Marriage Changes When You Don’t Just Need A Warm Body and a Paycheck’: A Talk With Rebecca Traister”

“We haven’t escaped the idea that marriage remains the organizing principle of female adult life. But, we are certainly complicating the idea, which means…

“Betty Friedan to Beyoncé: Today’s generation embraces feminism on its own terms”

“Young women (and, increasingly, men) are still coming to the movement in strong numbers, but this feminism looks different, in many ways, than that of earlier generations. This New Wave…

“8 Ways to Show Respect for Someone’s Name Change”

“2. Remember That it Isn’t Your Place to Ask Certain Questions
It isn’t polite to ask someone why they have chosen to go by a new name.

There are a lot of reason why someone would want to shed an old identity…

“The Smurfette Principle [1991]”

“the Smurfette principle: a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined. In the worst cartoons — the ones that blend seamlessly into the animated cereal commercials — the female is usually a little-sister type, a bunny in a pink dress…

“Who’s ‘They’?”

“This registers as a modern problem, but gender-neutral pronouns have been proposed for centuries. In 1808, Samuel Taylor Coleridge suggested repurposing “it” and “which” “in order to avoid particularizing man or woman, or in order to express either sex indifferently.” But only recently has…