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Kimberly White/Reuters Is One of the Most-Cited Statistics About Sex Work Wrong?
Prostitutes don't in actuality start, on average, at age 13, and insisting that they do misrepresents them.
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Global Panorama/Flickr Where Are All the Female Test Subjects?
The animals and human cells used in medical research are overwhelmingly male—meaning that as new therapies are developed, some biological sex differences may go unaddressed.
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Eric Thayer/Reuters What's Wrong With Checking Out Stolen Nude Photos of Celebrities
The ethics of looking away
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Holly Lay/Flickr The Quiet Crisis Among Queer Women
At a time when same-sex marriage and gay equality are on the march, a new poll of LGBT Americans shows women lagging in several disheartening respects.
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Screenshots from 100percentmen.tumblr.com A Fair-Trade-Like Certification for Gender Equality
Consumers say they want to shop ethically, but how many of them actually do?
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David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters Is Femen Dying?
The radical feminist movement struggles to survive in France.
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Denton Rumsey/Shutterstock A Deadly Epidemic of Violence Against Women
One epicenter is South Carolina, where all 46 counties have at least one animal shelter—and only 18 have domestic abuse shelters.
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Britt Selvitelle/Flickr Working From Home Seems More Legitimate If You Have a Kid
And dads, a study finds, are typically granted more leeway than moms.
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Eric Gaillard/Reuters The Plight of the Male 'Plus One'
Playing accessory to an awards-show nominee is an inherently awkward task. Add in society's gender expectations, and it gets more so.
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Shutterstock Having a Daughter Won't Make You Vote Democratic (or Republican)
A new study challenges previous conclusions about how parenthood changes politics.
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Uber.com How Uber Helps Women Break Into the Taxi Industry
Safety has always been a huge barrier to entry for cabbies, but the ride-finding app's features seem to reduce the risk of a driver being victimized.
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Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters The Many Ways Twitter Is Bad at Responding to Abuse
As it considers revising its rules, the company must decide which users it really values.
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Kickstarter Women Are More Likely to Secure Kickstarter Funding Than Men
Surprisingly, this effect was strongest for technology-oriented projects.
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Wikimedia Commons Why Have All the U.S. Treasurers Since 1949 Been Women?
For the last six decades, presidents have treated the position as a low-risk, high-visibility job that promotes the appearance of diversity while rewarding loyal supporters.
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Alexis Madrigal Two Working Parents, One Sick Kid
When both mom and dad have jobs, the cultural default is that mom will be the one to take the day off and stay at home.
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David Cerny/Reuters Tallying Female Workers Isn't Enough to Make Tech More Diverse
This summer, a flock of tech companies released numbers on the diversity of their employees. But others have been doing it for years, and little has changed.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Men Say 'Uh' and Women Say 'Um'
Our word-fumbles offer subtle clues about our personalities and intentions.
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U.S. Public Health Service/Flickr Why Are There So Many Women in Public Relations?
The field is nearly two-thirds female. Is it because of a lack of better options—or is it, in fact, the best possible option?
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Suhaib Salem/Reuters Gaza: It's a Man's War
How sexism contributes to the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians
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Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/Shutterstock Still White, Still Male: The Anachronism of Harvard's Final Clubs
The college is about to welcome its most diverse incoming class. But its social scene is still dominated by highly exclusive all-male groups.
