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Jun 17, 2016

“As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops”

“the academic work behind it helps explain the pay gap’s persistence even as the factors long thought to cause it have disappeared. Women, for example, are now better educated than men, have nearly as much work experience and are…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 4, 2016

“Is This the End of the Era of the Important, Inappropriate Literary Man?”

“The accusations against Ellis portrayed him as a familiar sort of figure. The story of the important, inappropriate literary man is so common and entrenched as to feel depressingly unremarkable. Women…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 19, 2016

“Why Brock Turner Believes He Isn’t a Rapist”

“We’re sociologists, and our talk about current events remains purely scientific, but as we discussed this case, our conversation turned into an exchange of stories of sexual aggression that seemed so painstakingly ordinary that we had never told…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 25, 2016

“When Your Sex Life Doesn’t Follow the Script”

“These ideals are implicit in the habitual surveys of how often we have sex, quickly transformed through popular culture into dictates of how often we should be having sex (two to three times a week, as any regular reader of women’s magazines will…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 17, 2016

“When Men Are Raped”

“Stemple, who works with the Health and Human Rights Project at UCLA, had often wondered whether incidents of sexual violence against men were under-reported. She had once worked on prison reform and knew that jail is a place where sexual violence against men is routine but not counted in…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 30, 2016

“This Menopause Joke Explains Why Women May Be Staying Out of the Courtroom”

“Salas said that he was concerned about Monserrate-Peñagarícano’s “medical condition,” adding: “A hot room is a trigger for hot flashes in women who are going through menopause.” The theory did not…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 27, 2016

“A new book answers why it’s so hard for educated women to find dates”

“women have been attending college at much higher rates than men since the 1980s, in the U.S. and in other countries around the world. That has led to a big demographic mismatch for people who want to date…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 23, 2016

“Inside The Persistent Boys Club Of Animation”

“Animation professionals interviewed for this article knew the conventional wisdom: “Boys’ shows are general audience and girls’ shows are niche,” parroted Sabrina Cotugno, a storyboard artist in her twenties, during a Skype interview. Following…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 12, 2016

“Buying Sex Should Not Be Legal”

“I know there are some advocates who argue that women in prostitution sell sex as consenting adults. But those who do are a relatively privileged minority — primarily white, middle-class, Western women in escort agencies — not remotely representative of the global…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Jun 18, 2016

“How Sweet Briar Came Back from Financial Ruin and Proved Women’s Colleges Are Still Relevant”

“Today there are 42 all-female holdouts — including Sweet Briar, which was saved by the heroic efforts of impassioned alumnae. How are these institutions faring in the…

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These were the top 10 stories published by Genders, and other gendered things in June of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for June of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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