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Flickr When Misogynist Trolls Make Journalism Miserable for Women
How many talented women dropped out of the blogosphere rather than deal with hateful Internet feedback?
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flickr The Easiest Possible Way to Increase Female Speakers at Conferences
A new study shows that having just one woman on the organizing committee for a conference greatly increases the likelihood of women appearing at the front of the room.
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Bettie Page Reveals All Male Fans Made Bettie Page a Star, but Female Fans Made Her an Icon
Her risqué pinup photos made her famous in the 1950s, but as a new documentary reminds us, Page's liberated sexuality and unflinching body positivity are what still resonate today.
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flickr Everyone You Know Really Did Just Get Engaged
A third of all engagements happen between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Here's why.
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AP Two Decades After Brandon Teena's Murder, a Look Back at Falls City
Eager to come to terms with his department's tragic mishandling of the rape that led to the murder on New Year's Eve in 1993, a small-town sheriff welcomes LGBT-sensitivity training.
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Annelieke B/flickr Manly Faces and Aggressive Men
What can you learn from that appealing look of testosterone?
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The NFL's Been Okay With Gay Players for 20 Years? Yeah Right
Former Houston Oilers players says the 1993 roster was okay with two suspected gay teammates, but their comments aren't as supportive as they've been made to seem.
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ITV Britain's 'Downton Law' Would End Gender Discrimination for Nobility Titles
Soon, you may not need to marry your cousin to save the title.
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The Risky Business of Paternity Leave
When men take time off to care for family members, their long-term earnings suffer—just as women's do. Here's why it's worth it.
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Why I'm Against 'Daddy Days'
Don't give dudes special credit for things they're supposed to do anyway.
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Buena Vista Pictures The Case for Female SEALs
Why the military is going about integrating the sexes all wrong: Women need to be in elite positions on special forces teams before they'll be accepted among the grunts of the infantry.
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Victor Ruiz Garcia / Reuters Why Men Fear Small Babies
New fathers are reluctant to take paternity leave for a lot of reasons. One might be sheer terror.
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Warner Bros. Her and the Complex Legacy of the Female Robot
Spike Jonze's film isn't the first portrayal of a servile, seemingly caring artificial-intelligence program. Robots have taken on traditionally feminine human roles since the 1960s.
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The Business Case for Paternity Leave
In an unpredictable job market, spouses do better when they "cross-train" at home.
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Why Superheroes Still Can't Have It All
Sage Stossel, author of the graphic novel Starling, talks about her unconventional heroine, her creative process, and her own memories of growing up with an anxious brother.
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Hunan Television Why a TV Show About Celebrity Fathers Has Enraptured China
Where Are We Going, Dad? presents a new generation of men who, in a break from Chinese tradition, now take an active role in their children's lives.
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Flickr Should Social Conservatives Really Stigmatize Premarital Sex?
Or would they do better to attack the stigma faced by young people who want to wait before becoming sexually active?
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Reuters Topless Jihadis: Inside the World's Most Radical Feminist Movement
“They all had masks on. One guy was waving around a huge knife. They took us into the woods and made us strip topless, and gave us a swastika poster to hold. Now they will kill us for sure, I thought.”
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Reuters Moms Who Cut Back at Work Are Happier
The doing-it-all discussion ignores the fact that the happiest women are making sacrifices at work to spend more time at home
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Wikimedia Commons The 'Curing' of Australia’s First Transgender Man
One Irish maid lived as a man in 19th-century Melbourne for decades. The horrifying story of his discovery and “treatment” speaks to attitudes about transgender people that circulate to this day.
