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Disney It's Not Just Frozen: Most Disney Movies Are Pro-Gay
By preaching acceptance and questioning gender, the company's kids films offer a queer-studies crash course.
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Christopher Sessums/Flickr The Dark History of EI, the Latest Frat Accused of Rapey Emails
A series of emails thought to be culled from a listserv of an unofficial fraternity at American University shows just how depraved some all-male campus groups can be—and that protecting students from assault will take more than just yanking frat charters.
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Jayaashree Industries How Sanitary Pads Can Help Women Improve Their Health and Education
When Arunachalam Muruganantham went to purchase disposable napkins for his wife, the only ones available were imported and quite expensive. So he figured out how to make them.
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Reuters A Key to College Success: Involved Dads
College students whose fathers were around during their high-school years are far more likely to graduate than those whose dads weren't around.
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HBO Game of Thrones Stumbles Into Rape
The show's latest shocker looks to have been an appalling mistake.
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Reuters Sex and the Single Man: What If Your Partner Has a Kid?
In 33 states, unmarried men can request to be notified if children they fathered—knowingly or not—are put up for adoption. But the system has serious flaws.
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Shutterstock/The Atlantic Postpartum Depression Can Happen to Any Parent
The baby blues aren’t just the domain of birth mothers: fathers, adoptive parents, and nonbiological mothers are also at risk.
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AMC Mad Men: Is This the Woman Who Can Save Don Draper?
Dissecting "A Day's Work," the second episode of the seventh season
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Wikimedia Commons In Which a Man Is Not Acquiring a Woman: A Wedding Redesign
Some Jewish couples are developing alternatives to a gendered, heterosexual matrimonial ceremony that can still work within Jewish tradition and law.
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Paulo Whitaker/Reuters An Ex- Ex-Gay Lesbian Pastor Preaches Tolerance in Brazil
Years before starting her own church, Lanna Holder tried for religious reasons to quit being gay. She represents an unusual side of the Protestantism that’s sweeping the world's largest Catholic country.
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Gage Skidmore/Flickr What Charles Murray Doesn't Get About Women and Philosophy
The conservative author believes that women have contributed little to major philosophical traditions because men are better abstract thinkers.
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AI Project / Reuters The Private Lives of Public Bathrooms
How psychology, gender roles, and design explain the distinctive way we behave in the world's stalls
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Charles Platiau/Reuters Recognizing When Kids Benefit From Their Parents' Divorce
"Would kids really be better off if their parents stayed together, fighting and yelling and tiptoeing around?"
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STRINGER Brazil/Reuters Sex Workers Are Excited for the World Cup Because They Think it Will Make Them Rich
Women have high hopes for the deep pockets of visiting gringos, but advocacy groups caution that their expectations might be dashed.
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MGM Confirmed: Showgirls Is Still Terrible
Some critics and fans argue that the once-maligned 1995 film is actually a masterwork of self-aware parody. But they've missed the ugly message at the movie's heart.
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Nixx Photography/Shutterstock The New Sex Education Focuses on Preventing Violence
The trend in instilling the importance of healthy relationships and mutual respect, not just how to use condoms
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Felipe Dana/AP Why Most Brazilian Women Get C-Sections
In many parts of the world, women are having more Cesarean sections than medically necessary. Recent abuses of pregnant women in Brazil have sparked a small, vocal movement of activists who want mothers to have more say in the delivery room.
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Courtesy of David Murray My Parents, the Real Mad Men
As the product of a Mad Men-era ad-agency romance, I know: The show gets the sex right, but fails to portray the love.
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Reuters D.C.'s Women Leaders: Yep, Earning Way Less Than Men
At the capital's top trade associations, professional societies, think tanks, labor unions, and public-interest groups, men overwhelmingly hold more of the top jobs—and they're better paid for their efforts.
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Olga Khazan Harsh Reproductive Math in the Slums
Ten kids, a baby, and a plywood shack in Brazil
