If unusual or gender bending clothes cause a dreaded disruption in class, banning the clothes is still not going to address the core problem: that gayness is considered an undesirable aberration.
Huff Radio | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
Are moneyed and special interests so entrenched that we cannot govern of, for and by the people? Is history made by great men and women? Or is it the reverse: Does the moment make the man/woman?
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports
A South African runner whose gender identity stirred up huge controversy will be permitted to keep her title and prize money. But how do we define what is too male to compete in a women's sport?
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
How has a rebalancing of gender power affected the connection between father and daughter -- for many women, one of the defining male relationships in her life?
forbes.com | Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Deepak Chopra picks the world's most powerful teachers....
AP | JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unani...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
A study I performed on successful CEOs of private equity funded ventures found that their wives played pivotal roles in their success as executives and in their sense of balance.
Therese Borchard | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Women are much more powerful than they were forty years ago. But they are stressed, anxious, and not as happy. Why?
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
More than half of the women in a recent survey said they take on significantly more responsibility for house and family, but only 28 percent of men saw it that way.
Elizabeth Debold | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
It seems pretty likely that Semenya is no longer going to be allowed to compete as a female in the sport that she loves and has trained so hard for.
The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
"Maya" is a Sanskrit term that refers to the "illusion" of physical and mental forms. If the physical form is in fact an illusion, who are you having sex with?
Mark Bazer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
Novelist Gillian Flynn ("Dark Places," "Sharp Objects") appeared on The Interview Show, to discuss her work, devil worship, and watching porn at slumber parties as a kid.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment
Despite at times being self-centered, lewd and at times irresponsible, would you date and/or marry Hank Moody?
Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style
Design is about people -- the handiwork of the creator, human ingenuity, and the social ramifications of design in use.
wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...
The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...
Leslie Grossman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Recent headlines remind me again that things are far from equal in the power suites of America. What's worse is so many men are not even aware of what they say or what they do publicly to exclude women.
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
Canada is a model for the world on immigration, diversity and pluralism. Now is the time to reignite Canada's commitment to gender equality and the advancement of women's rights internationally.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
The higher the amount of testosterone, the more willing people are to take risks. Women, with considerably less of the male hormone coursing through their bodies, are more risk averse.
Jaclyn Friedman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment
In the confused minds of many, Polanski is a real-life Batman, a flawed anti-hero living outside the law because that's the only way he can truly overcome his tortured history.
Tove Hermanson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Style