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How to Attack the Gender Wage Gap? Speak Up
The New York Times: ANNIE HOULE, grandmother of seven, holds up a stack of pink dollar bills. “How many of you know about the wage gap?” she asks a roomful of undergraduates, almost all of
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Cleverer still
The Economist: SCIENCE has few more controversial topics than human intelligence—in particular, whether variations in it are a result of nature or nurture, and especially whether such variations differ between the sexes. The mines in
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More Dads Buy the Toys, So Barbie, and Stores, Get Makeovers
The New York Times: Barbies are for girls and construction sets are for boys. Or are they? For the first time in Barbie’s more than 50-year history, Mattel is introducing a Barbie construction set that
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Republican and Lesbian, and Fighting for Acceptance of Both Identities
The New York Times: In 1996, Kathryn Lehman was a soon-to-be married lawyer working for Republicans in the House of Representatives. One of her major accomplishments: helping to write the law that bans federal recognition
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We Can’t Blame Everything on Powerful Men
Scientific American: There’s certainly been no shortage of news headlines proclaiming that we can now add former CIA director General David Petraeus to the list of powerful men who have been brought down by very
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Everyone Judges Sexy Women — but Why?
“Are sexualized women seen as complete human beings?” — and if not, why? A group of psychological scientists led by Jeroen Vaes of the University of Padova, Italy, tried to answer these questions by studying
