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Courtesy of Cyndi Lauper The Feisty Feminism of 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun,' 30 Years Later
The track was originally a man's account of bedding women—until Cyndi Lauper transformed it into a rallying cry for sexual equality.
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Jefferson County Sheriff Department/AP How Not to Talk About the Culture of Sexual Assault
Nearly one in five American women reported experiencing rape at some time in their lives. Recent clashes about the term rape culture highlight the roles of systems, attitudes, and resources in preventing the crime and undoing the criminal.
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Jessica Hill/AP Photo This Is Not Your Father's STEM Job
Instead of following traditional paths, women are using their science, technology, engineering, and math degrees to create new careers.
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Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters On ‘Late’-In-Life Virginity Loss
Those who don’t have sex during their teen years are in the minority, but the reasons for—and effects of—waiting differ for everyone.
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Glyn Lowe Photoworks/Flickr Studying U.S. Families: 'Men Are Where Women Were 30 Years Ago'
An interview with Stephanie Coontz, author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
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Eike Schroter / CBS Why That Big Twist on The Good Wife Is a Breakthrough for TV
The show has sent the message that its female lead's story will not be driven by her love interests.
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/Flickr America's Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted
Why do so many people—particularly women—seem to have so much on their plates?
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Ukrainian Women Have Launched a Sex Strike Against Russian Men
"Don't give it to a Russian" uses the oldest protest trick in the book.
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wolfsavard/flickr Banning Pledging Doesn't Fix Fraternities' Health Problem
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's new pledging policy may be good for PR, but it doesn't address the health risks of frats' binge-drinking culture
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Mike Theiler/Reuters The Jarring Reasons People Don't Want Hillary Clinton to Be President
Many Americans want to see the first female president. But some say she's not qualified—despite a resume including the White House, Senate, and State Department.
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Lionsgate; Summit Must Every YA Action Heroine Be Petite?
From Divergent's Tris to The Hunger Games' Katniss, the women of young-adult fiction can be strong, independent, and mature—as long as they're also scrawny.
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Ted Eytan/Flickr The Myth of Gay Affluence
Despite a commonly held belief that LGBT Americans tend to live it up in classy urban neighborhoods, they struggle with disproportionately high levels of poverty compared to straight people.
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Matt Sayles / AP; Wikimedia The Little Mermaid's Twisted, Sofia Coppola-esque Origins
Forget the Disney movie. The director of The Virgin Suicides was the perfect pick to make a live-action version of Hans Christen Andersen's disturbing fable about a girl becoming a woman.
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vicknes/Flickr When College Athletes Face Depression
“It was very hard, as a man playing D1 football, to go to somebody and say ‘I’m having a hard time’.”
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Sony Pictures Classics The Never-Ending Controversy Over All-Girls Education
It's extremely tricky to prove scientifically whether or not single-sex schooling is effective.
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Javier Jaén Benavidas The Monogamy Trap
What do we talk about when we talk about love? How hard and boring it is to be faithful.
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Bo47/Flickr Students Who Do Sex Work
Everyone's story is different.
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clevercupcakes/flickr For Women, the Benefits of Insurance Outweigh Its Costs
The value of the free birth control, pap smears, and screenings women would get for free is more than the price of a mid-range plan, a new study finds.
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Gary Burchell / Getty How 'Male' Jobs Hurt Female Paychecks
For decades, women were entering "male" jobs in large numbers, but that trend has tapered. And that's hurting women's earning potential.
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!anaughty!/flickr How to Succeed Professionally by Helping Others
Research shows that even if the rewards aren't immediately apparent, contributing to the success of others pays off in the long run.
