Category: Gender

Check out the latest from the Women’s & Gender Studies program blog!

• When There’s A Baby Between You And The Glass Ceiling
  From NPR:  Among the candidates President Obama may nominate for the next defense secretary is Michele Flournoy, formerly the highest-ranking woman in the Pentagon. Flournoy is a mother of three, and in February, she stunned her colleagues when she stepped down from her job as undersecretary of defense for policy to spend more time with […]
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• The Saddest Graph You’ll See Today
  From the Washington Post: This graphic, passed along by the Huffington Post‘s Laura Bassett, was put together by the Enliven Project using data from Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey and FBI reports. It drives home extremely well the fact that false rape accusations are exceedingly rare, despite what media reports might suggest. Almost as […]
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• Israel to Review Curbs on Women’s Prayer at Western Wall
  From the NYT:  Amid outrage across the Jewish diaspora over a flurry of recent arrests of women seeking to pray at the Western Wall with ritual garments in defiance of Israeli law, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, to study the issue and suggest ways to make […]
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• A Woman’s Place Is in the House
  From the NYT: Most states are red or blue. A few are purple. After the November election, New Hampshire turned pink. Women won the state’s two Congressional seats. Women already held the state’s two Senate seats. When they are all sworn into office on Thursday, New Hampshire will become the first state in the nation’s history […]
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• College Student’s Account Has Rape in Spotlight
  From the NYT:  This year has brought news of student athletes charged with sex crimes at Boston University and at Temple, along with countless other less publicized cases. There have been claims that Wesleyan University tolerated a fraternity house where the abuse of women was common. A gang rape at the University of Massachusetts was […]
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• Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’
  From the NYT: Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused. They are both friendly white women from modest Midwestern backgrounds who left for college with conventional hopes of marriage, motherhood and career. They both have children in […]
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• Are You the Office Sexist?
  From GQ: Sorry we have to be the ones to tell you this. But just because you’re not the person who sexts the junior partner (you’re not, are you?) or publicly grades the women who walk by your cubicle on a ten-point scale—that doesn’t mean you’re not that creepy guy. It’s gotten a little more […]
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• ‘End Of Men’ Heralds New Era Of Female Dominance
  From NPR: Women have fought tirelessly to establish equal footing for themselves in relationships, politics and the workplace, and according to writer Hanna Rosin, they’ve finally arrived. In her new book, The End of Men: And The Rise of Women, Rosin argues that the U.S. has entered an era of female dominance.  “Women make up about […]
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• A Year Out of College, Women Already Paid Less Than Men
  From the Washington Post:  Women are attending college at higher rates than men, graduating in greater numbers and earning higher grades. Yet one year after graduation, women were making only 82 percent of what their male colleagues were paid, according to a report by the American Association of University Women set to be released Wednesday. Nearly every occupation […]
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• Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession
  From the NYT:  Pediatricians are starting to sound alarm bells about boys who take unhealthy measures to try to achieve Charles Atlas bodies that only genetics can truly confer. Whether it is long hours in the gym, allowances blown on expensive supplements or even risky experiments with illegal steroids, the price American boys are willing to pay for […]
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