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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Toys Are More Divided by Gender Now Than They Were 50 Years Ago
Even at times when discrimination was much more common, catalogs contained more neutral appeals than advertisements today.
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HBO The Newsroom Tackles Campus Rape, and the Results Are Horrifying
There was nothing good about Sunday's episode, but its level of misguided self-regard almost made it must-see TV.
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Sperm Donor, Life Partner
Just because women can create and raise a baby alone doesn't mean they want to. An increasing number of women and lesbian couples are seeking an involved father for a donor.
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A&E Men Got the Whole Bible, and All Women Got Was This Red Tent
Lifetime has made the story of Jacob's wives and daughters into a two-part mini-series. Retelling the Old Testament through the eyes of women is noble—but fraught.
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Bob Mical/Flickr The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors
When sexual assault reports turn out to be inaccurate—even slightly so—nobody wins.
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Wikimedia/The Atlantic Peter Pan, Queer Icon
In NBC's Peter Pan Live!, Allison Williams continues the long history of women playing the boy—or "boi"—who never grew up.
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University of Washington The AIDS-Fighting Tampon
An electrically charged fabric makes for a quick-dissolving delivery vessel for drugs that kill HIV.
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Lightspring/Shutterstock A New Harassment Policy for Twitter
The social network is trying to balance openness and the prevention of abuse.
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Tobias Toft/Flickr Does Politics Need Gender Quotas—for Men?
How limiting male representation, rather than creating a floor for female participation, might shake up government
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The Messed-Up Ways People Talk About Shia LaBeouf's Alleged Rape
Of course men can be raped. And of course performance art isn't the issue here.
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Courtesy Brad Herbert and The Art of Sierra The Odd History of the First Erotic Computer Game
Released in 1981, Softporn was controversial, cheesy, and earnest to a fault. It also presaged today's ongoing debates about who computers and games are for.
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Jim Young/Reuters Why Is the Abortion Rate Falling?
Ironically, the socially conservative pro-life movement has made its peace with unwed parenthood as an alternative to abortion.
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Paul Hudson/Flickr Scientist, Museum Director, Mother of Two
A new leader at the American Museum of Natural History talks about motherhood, goals, and having fun in your career.
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Nacho Doce/Reuters The Rise of Daddy Daycare
Even though the burden of cultural expectation still generally falls on mothers, fathers now spend almost five more hours on childcare each week than they did in 1965.
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Screenshot How Not to Make a PSA About Rape
Hungary's "You can do something about it, you can do something against it" campaign blames women for inviting sexual violence.
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Super Hanz/Flickr Nudging College Students to Prevent Rape and Sexual Assault
Would serial offenders have a harder time if more men and women felt personally responsible for stopping them?
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Wikimedia The Different Ways Black and White Women See Stereotypes in STEM
Does race influence whether girls pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math?
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Simmie Knox/David Stansbury/Smithsonian Why Is the Smithsonian Standing Behind Bill Cosby?
The comedian thinks people should have "the integrity not to ask" about the allegations against him. The institution apparently agrees.
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Courtesy Alicia Service Dogs for Sexual-Assault Survivors
Around 30 percent of rape victims suffer from PTSD. Now, some are adapting the four-legged treatment used by military veterans to ease their trauma.
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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The Gender-Wage Gap Is Shrinking—or Is It?
Why Millennial women will make more than their mothers, but less than their brothers
