This self-citation gap held true across every major academic field the authors studied, including biology, sociology, philosophy and law. In a footnote, the paper’s authors — three women and two men — dryly note that the pattern holds among themselves as well: …
#MomentsInTransition is encouraging transgender people to tweet photos of moments during their transition that made them feel awesome and share what they felt was an important moment in their personal process to become themselves.
If ‘queer’ once sought to provide an umbrella term for nonconforming genders and various sexualities, ones that did not easily submit to categorization, it is now clearly embroiled in a battle of its own.
Gender Trouble, published in 1990, made Butler a star: It introduced “performativity,” the idea that gender isn’t something we are but something we continually do, opening the door for “cultural configurations of sex and gender [to] proliferate,” as she put …
We know that women multitask more often than men. A better question is whether women should be proud of their multitasking. Research does have an answer to this question. And the answer is no.
Long workweeks and copious amounts of stress aren’t good for anyone’s health, but new research has found that workweeks of 40 hours or more can be especially bad for women—and the reason why is depressing.
