The XX Factor

We’re Talking About: July 22, 2010

- Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says “don’t hold your breath for ‘the end of men ’ ” in response to DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin ’s recent piece in The Atlantic . [ The New York Times ]

-Why do women outnumber men in graduate school but make up only a fraction of full professors and college presidents ? [ The Washington Post ]

-A feminist writer finds common ground with Betty Draper , television’s most doleful trophy wife. [ Salon ]

-The notorious teen ‘Barefoot Bandit’ Colton Harris-Moore came from troubled beginnings . [ The New York Times ]

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