There are many avenues to gain insight into the topics of sex, sexuality and gender. Researchers and academics often find unique windows of investigation to learn more about the topic. A new course at Rutgers' Department of Women's and Gender Stud...
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Joris Lammers of Tilburg University in the Netherlands surveyed 1561 professionals who identified themselves as having similar careers and similar amounts of power and compared their infidelities based on gender. While it has long been believed th...
Read MoreIn the last few years there have been several examples of parents wanting to raise their children outside of the domain of traditional gender stereotypes. Some choose gender neutral names, some resist the urge to buy everything in pink or in blue ...
Read MoreWhat happens when we take the stereotypical visual differentiation of gender (pink and blue) to the extreme? What began as a thesis project in 2005 has grown into a much larger endeavor, exploring "the color preferences of children and their paren...
Read MoreEvery March 8th we celebrate International Women's Day, a celebration that has been taking place for 100 years. "International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to ...
Read MoreAs Trendhunter reported, the motto of EqualPayday is, “The less you earn, the longer you work. Close the wage gap.” This commercial created by ad agency Mortierbrigade is an attempt to make the viewer uneasy. "This unease in their life is parallel...
Read MoreWe have many misconceptions about the natural world, and many of them are in regards to gender. Yale University researchers have identified that female caterpillars raised at cooler temperatures grow into adult female butterflies who "court" in th...
Read MoreIn many languages we fall upon using gendered words that put items into two supposedly opposing categories such as male or female or mother vs father, but as the structures of families change and identities are not such simple dichotomies, the off...
Read MoreWith one of my dear friends very pregnant right now, I thought I'd dedicate this post to her with some scientific breakthroughs (and some fun) in the world of pregnancy. Since 2006, a home gender detection device for expectant mothers has been on ...
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