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How Working Mothers Handle Life: Pew Study

Pew Social & Demographic Trends | Kim Parker | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Happiness, Women's Issues, Family Values, Working Mothers, Working Women, Women in Business, Working Families, Stress Reduction, Family, Working Moms, Gender Roles, Living News

Working mothers in particular are ambivalent about whether full-time work is the best thing for them or their children; they feel the tug of family mu...

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Women, Men, and Happiness: We're All in Transition

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Joan Williams, Marcus Buckingham, Happiness, Women, Gender Roles, Workplace, Employment, Feminism, Gender, Living News
Morra Aarons-Mele

The huge societal shift brought about by women's move into the workforce has only begun to play out, and its consequences are truly complex. So when telling this story, we should be careful not to isolate our focus to just women.

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Is it Time to Invent a New Masculinity?

Sean McManus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Jesse Eisenberg, Hugh Dancy, John Krasinski, Japanese Herbivores, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Cera, Bonobos, Gawker, Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Masculinity, The Year of Awkward Young Men, Femininity, Working-Class Masculinity, Gender Roles, Living News
Sean McManus

The new economy is a tough place for these old-fashioned guys. That's why it's important that we work together to create a new kind of masculinity, not defined by "infants in Morissey onesies."

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"She's Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl..."

Tameka J. Raymond | Posted 09.11.2009 | Style

Read More: African American Beauty, Beauty, African Americans, Gender Roles, Tameka Raymond, Style News
Tameka J. Raymond

The deeply rooted intra-racial contempt that lies beneath this inane "compliment" is the reason I've chosen to spark dialogue surrounding the topic of self-hatred in African-American culture.

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Gender Stupid (Psychically) and That is Fine with Me

Margaret Ruth | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Lesbian, Homosexual, Partners, Margaret Ruth, Same Sex Couples, Beliefs, Gay, Heterosexual, Culture, Gender, Hidden Beliefs, Partnership, Gender Roles, Dating, Drama, Relationships, Couples, Love, Living News
Margaret Ruth

Cultural overlays about gender and hetero and homo couplings do some funky stuff to people and block their ability to have perfectly healthy, joyful and whole partnerships.

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Peaceful Revolution: Millennial Dads Bend Traditional Gender Roles

Nanette Fondas | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Mothering. Stay at Home Dads, Fatherhood, Parenting, Gender Roles, Father's Day, Stay-at-Home Moms, Fathers, Living News
Nanette Fondas

For decades we've been hearing that working women often experience feelings of conflict between work and family when they become mothers. But now moms are not alone.

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Generation Superwomen: Sitting On The Sidelines

Makenna Goodman at Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Women's Rights, Women, Gender Roles, Vermont, Twenty-Something Advice, Identity, Rural America, Fitting In, Living News

I Don't Want To Burn My Bra, But AAARGH!This weekend I sat on the sidelines of the men's soccer game. It was a big deal, and many people were there, y...

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You Wear The Suit: 8 Tips On Trading Places With Your Spouse

Therese Borchard | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Unemployment, Work, Economy, Economic Crisis, Women Workers, Success, Gender Roles, Careers, Jobs, Living News
Therese Borchard

I've noticed many more men at pick-up from school and camp, soccer practice and birthday parties. The women? They've gone back to work because there a...

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Hip to Strip? Or Is it Time for Men to Stop Watching?

Shira Tarrant | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Men, Stripping, Strippers, Strip Clubs, Gender Roles, Gender, Style News
Shira Tarrant

The real issue is not whether men keep watching naked women parade around in Lucite heels. It's that it's time for men to expand their repertoire, start watching something new.

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The Lost Art of Being a Lady

Diana Falzone | Posted 04.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Being a Lady, Lady, Etiquette, Diana Falzone, Manners, Gender, Gender Roles, Style News
Diana Falzone

We are in a new era; a time where change is happening. It's time for women to make a change. Let's recreate and revise our generation's vision of what a lady is.

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Men's Warrior Weekend

Peter Clothier | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Men, Mankind, Mental Health, Gender Roles, Santa Barbara, Men's Health, New Warrior Training Adventure, Living News
Peter Clothier

Too many of us men, in today's troubled world, have failed to grow out of being little boys. We need more good, well-directed masculine energy in this world.

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Benevolent Sexism: Men Can't Help Themselves, Study Shows

Rick Smith | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Benevolent Sexism, Daniel Goldman, Bikini, Gender Roles, Victoria's Secret, Susan Fiske, Princeton, Sexism, Work-Place-Attire, Evolution, Emotional Intelligence, Neanderthal, Style News
Rick Smith

Fiske suggested that "if there are sexualized pictures of women in the workplace, there may be a spillover effect, perhaps influencing the way people perceive female colleagues."

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Laughter is Good for the Body, Mind and Social Relationships

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Oprah, Psychology, Msnbc, Business Psychology, Laughter, Health, Gender Roles, Living News
Dr. Tian Dayton

A good laugh helps us to let go, to feel more alive inside. It also helps respiration, as frequent belly laughter empties your lungs of more air than it takes in resulting in a cleansing effect.

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Guys and Dolls

Stephanie Fairyington | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Growing Up, Webkinz, Children, Boys, Parenting, Feminism, Femininity, Social Activism, Gender, Girls, Marlo Thomas, Free to Be You and Me, Kids, Masculinity, Gender Issues, 1970s, Good Morning America, Family, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Living News
Stephanie Fairyington

The success of web-based interactive dolls like Webkinz indicates that boys respond to toys that tap into their fatherly instincts; for the month of October alone, boys made up 36% of the site's visitors.

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The Spirit of Invention

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Invention, Holiday Traditions, Holiday Cooking, Malcolm Gladwell, Gender Roles, Family, The Inner Life, The Balanced Life, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Through a collective desire to invent what had not been invented before, I had been given the chance to identify how old assumptions carry the power to limit the present.

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The Tables Have Turned

Giulia Melucci | Posted 12.24.2008 | Style

Read More: Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Romance, Brooklyn, Cooking, Dating, Online Dating, Food, Internet Dating, Masculinity, Femininity, New York City, Style News
Giulia Melucci

I like to be the cook in my relationships. When I'm not slaving over the stove for some boyfriend or other I'm not sure what I have to offer.

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Who Pays When Families Move?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Working Women, Careers, Michelle Obama, Working Families, Barack Obama, Gender, Family, Obama Family Move, Gender Logic, Career Displacement, Obama Family, Career Relocation, Gender Roles in Families, Gender Roles, Family Relocation, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Even if it's not "rational" economically, couples are much more likely to move for the husband's career. The gender logic within families is often more powerful than the economic logic.

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Hillary Clinton for VP

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Gender Roles, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Political Power, Racial Stereotypes, Michelle Malkin, Feminism, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Vice President, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

Unlike Rice and Powell, Clinton and Obama want to wield the power themselves, and they make no bones about it. This is a radical shift in establishment Washington's racial/sexual dynamic.

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