“We know that the more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life,” she said. “So there’s clearly a very, very strong message coming through — that boys are picking up too, by the way — that girls can’t do as many things as boys can.”

"What could be wrong with a gentleman opening a door for a lady? According to some social psychologists, such acts endorse gender stereotypes: the idea that women are weak and need help; that men are powerful patriarchs. Now a study has looked at how women are perceived when they accept or reject an act of so-called "benevolent sexism"* and it finds that they're caught in a double-bind. Women who accept help from a man are seen as warmer, but less competent. Women who reject help are seen as more competent, but cold. ..."

Bitch is a word we use culturally to describe any woman who is strong, angry, uncompromising and, often, uninterested in pleasing men.We use the term for a woman on the street who doesn't respond to men's catcalls or smile when they say, "Cheer up, baby..

It's a proper discussion, dismal in places, but as clear a description of how not very much has changed since the Seventies as can be got. (jenny diski)

Wake up! We are in 2007. Women are no longer owned by their father and then their husband. So why are some women still changing their surnames? And why do some men still want them to? It's sad, it's misogynous, it's archaic, it's insecure and it's unneces

A British import called The Dangerous Book for Boys has soared on American bestseller lists. Is it a new beacon for real boyhood—or a throwback to 1950s-style ideas of sex roles, "dangerous" in a different way than its title suggests?

And the women (like me) who try to ignore them. Or at least I did -- until the Kathy Sierra affair.

...each time women have become the most frequent users of a popular and brand new communication technology, narratives emerge in the mass media and eventually in the popular psyche about the dangers awaiting women who use technology alone.

- cornelia dean

no sex until you're 30.

This year's Oscar nominees may seem to reflect a resurgence of strong roles for women, but compare them to the women stars of pre-Code Hollywood, and 2001 looks like the Dark Ages. [mick la salle]

Women score much lower on math tests if they are first asked questions about gender issues. The phenomenon is "stereotype threat"... psychologists found that black students did worse on intelligence tests if they were first asked to identify their race.

apparently the original Stanford Binet IQ test was revised when the test developers found that women scored higher than men on it.

lucy mangan on noer column in Forbes

commentary on the Forbes piece by Noer ("Don't Marry Career Women")

fifteen women considered the "top" female circumcisers in their district have publicly abandoned their trade.

A study of 61 male university students found those who were hungry were attracted to heavier women than those who were satiated.

A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

zoe williams

One of world's most prestigious museums of 20th-century art is taking on the battle for gender equality

Slashdot has become the hub of the tech world. So why do many of its users seem like sexist dicks?

...the worst chat-up lines included 'I have a PhD in computing'...

see <http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040019>

Like a girl

"Metamorphosis"