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• Virgins: Not as Dumb as You Think (Or Are They?)

  Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 10:57 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Anybody else read the NYT Magazine piece on Harvard's intentional virgins? It was in many ways right off-the-rack: Not all young people who are virgins on purpose are dum-dum religious nuts. Some of them—brace yourselves—have even infiltrated Harvard. Read More...
  Filed under: feminism, gender stereotype, sexuality, media coverage, chastity

• Obama's Sexist Dog Whistle

  Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 2:07 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Barack Obama brought up Hillary Clinton's period ! "I understand that Senator Clinton periodically ,'' (See? He said it!) "when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal." Clearly, he was saying his rival ought to look Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, women, feminism, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, gender issues, '08 election, stereotype threat, gender stereotype, work

• Who Was Hillary Kidding on Meet the Press?

  Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 2:00 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  Back to Hillaryland (because who can stay out for long?): Who is she kidding when she said to Tim Russert yesterday , about herself and Obama, "I don't think either of one of us want to inject race and gender in this campaign"? I'm pretty much in favor Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, '08 election, gender stereotype, race

• Can We Build It?

  Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:18 AM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  Courtesy of Feminist Law Professors , a grain-of-salt study that suggests something pretty interesting : Little girls may want to play with boy toys more than Bratz or Barbies. Yeah, yeah the focus group was funded by Bob the Builder and his bosses . Read More...
  Filed under: feminism, gender stereotype, children

• Power and Empathy

  Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:08 AM By Ann Hulbert
  
  I'm a fan of Shankar Vedantam's "Department of Human Behavior" column in the Washington Post, which reported yesterday on some recent social psychology research that perhaps sheds new light on tough Hillary, and the spectacle of the candidates in general. Read More...
  Filed under: Hillary Clinton, campaign, gender stereotype

• What Are You Laughing At?

  Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:47 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  I'm with Emily . Despite my irrational and - until now, at least -- enduring soft spot for John McCain , laughing one's senatorial socks off when a colleague is called the B word is no less objectionable than if he had indulged a (theoretical) Obama hater Read More...
  Filed under: Hillary Clinton, sex discrimination, '08 election, gender stereotype

• Daring Girls, Derivative Toys

  Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 12:21 PM By Ann Hulbert
  
  More frivolously occupied than Dahlia or Emily have been, I spent a bit of my weekend flipping through The Daring Book for Girls . I picked it up after my daughter had written about it for her high-school newspaper—and after The New York Times had mocked Read More...
  Filed under: parenting, gender issues, gender stereotype, family

• Hillary Clinton: Tough, Stoic, or Scary?

  Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:47 PM By Meghan O'Rourke
  
  If we need any reminder that it's not easy to be the first popular female candidate for the American presidency, it arrived Monday in the form of an announcement by the AP that Hillary Clinton was leading in yet another poll. This one? The candidate likely Read More...
  Filed under: Hillary Clinton, campaign, '08 election, gender stereotype, election

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