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Girls Can't Be Girls: Canadian Women's Hockey Team Knocked for Drinking, Smoking on Ice

February 26, 2010 4:40 pm by debontherocks in Gender Bias
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I love it that the Canadian women's hockey team celebrated their third straight Olympic gold win in the same way they scored it:  boldly, fiercely, with strength and camaraderie.  I hate it that they are getting grief for it. I hate it that they (or Hockey Canada, at least) felt they had to apologize.  Read more

Objective Science Is Gender-Biased

December 10, 2009 9:06 pm by Suzanne Reisman in Gender Bias
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The week before Thanksgiving, I was lucky enough to meet author and history professor Julie Des Jardins for a cup of tea to discuss her forthcoming book, The Madame Curie Complex. (The name - and picture - might seem familiar to BlogHer members. That's right: Julie is the sister of awesome BlogHer co-founder Jory Des Jardins.  Read more

Gender Differences: Socially Conditioned and Reinforced through the Media

September 14, 2009 9:38 am by Suzanne Reisman in Gender Bias
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Sharon Begley is my hero. Begley is a senior editor and science writer at Newsweek magazine. In column after column, she debunks junk evolutionary psychology "science" and other theories that insist that gender differences are 100% hard wired. Back in June 2009, Begley wrote "Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around?," which thoroughly trashed an evolutionary psychology theory that it is in human (male) genes to rape because 100,000 years ago:  Read more

The Gender Bias in Statutory Rape

July 13, 2009 7:52 am by Suzanne Reisman in Gender Bias
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Near the end of the school year, a 38 year old teacher was arrested in the suburbs of Chicago, charged with having sex with a former student (who is 16 years old). In addition to the inappropriate sexual relationship, the teacher also supposedly supplied marijuana to the gang in which the student belonged, and possibly even joined the gang. After the arrest, the teacher was allowed to return to the home in which the teacher's spouse and two young daughters resided.  Read more

Leadership and The Mother Goose Factor

November 14, 2007 5:21 am by Elana Centor in Gender Bias
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One of the sidebar benefits of having Hillary Clinton performing so well in the democratic polls is that its forcing the pundits to examine what it would really be like to have a woman leading this country.  Read more

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