Sex and Gender Contemporary Trends

Sex, Sexuality, & Gender Definitions

• Why Sex is Not Binary (The New York Times)
  
• What Makes the Female Brain Different – Two Minds (Stanford University) and Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain (The Guardian)
  

• The Social Construction of Sex and Gender (Society Pages)
• Can We Finally Stop Talking About ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains? (The New York Times)

• The Truth About Sex Differences (Psychology Today)
• Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Explained (ThoughtCo.)
• The biggest myth about our brains is that they are “male” or “female” (Quartz)
• Born this way? Belle de Jour believes we're all bisexual (Telegraph)
• Seven Facts About Gender (Huff Post)

Demographics & Statistics

• Women's History Month 2018 (U.S. Census)
• Sheryl Sandberg: Four years after 'Lean In' women are not better off (USA Today)

Matriarchy and Patriarchy

• What are matriarchies? (Independent)

Stereotypes

• Adios, Alexa: why must our robot assistants be female? (The Guardian)

• The Development of Children's Gender‐Science Stereotypes (Wiley Online Library)

Femininity, Female Identities & Issues

• Who Farts and Who Cares? (Society Pages)
• "I'm a single woman and I'm fed up with emotional labour, too" (Cosmopolitan)
• Young American women are poorer than their moms and grandmas, and more likely to commit suicide (Los Angeles Times)
• How 1,000 Women Feel & Talk About Other People’s Bodies — & Their Own (Refinery 29)
• Speaking While Female (New York Times)

Masculinity, Male Identities & Issues

• The Miseducation of the American Boy (The Atlantic)

• Men’s economic dependency only stresses them out when they hold ‘traditional’ gender attitudes (PsyPost)

• Masculinity Is Not Toxic, But It Might Be Diseased (Fatherly)

• Feminism is creating opportunities for girls. But what about our boys? (The Washington Post)
• How Feminism Is Stifling Our Sons (Harper’s Bazaar)

• Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules (The New York Times)

• When Boys Can't Be Boys (NPR)

• You haven't heard of this masculinity movement, but it's exactly what men need right now (Mashable)
• Men Are More Satisfied By ‘Bromances’ Than Their Romantic Relationships (Time)
• Men still die before women. Is toxic masculinity to blame? (The Guardian)
• Tucker Carlson: "Men Seem To Be Becoming Less Male" (Real Clear Politics)
• Why We Miss The Point When We Call Masculinity "Toxic" (Refinery 29)
• Millennial Men Are Bolstering the Plastic Surgery Industry (Bloomberg)
• Male eating disorders are on the rise but more men are seeking help (Daily Mail)

Male Privilege

• Check your male privilege with one questionnaire (Australian News)

Implicit Bias

• Unconscious Biases Hold Women Back. How Many of Them Do You Believe? (Inc.)
• The hidden sexism in workplace language (BBC)

Gender & The American Culture

• Gender Flexibility, but not Equality: Young Adults’ Division of Labor Preferences (Sociological Science)

• Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments (The New York Times)

• How Americans describe what society values (and doesn’t) in each gender (Pew Research Center)

• 'Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie' Is Fascinating (The Atlantic)
• America’s fastest-growing plastic surgery procedure takes place below the belt (MarketWatch)
• Men attracted plastic surgery (USA Today)
• How ‘Cheap Sex’ Is Changing Our Lives — and Our Politics (New York Magazine)
• Single Ladies Are More Likely to Downplay Career Goals, Study Finds (Entrepreneur)

Institutional Sexism

• The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes (The Guardian)

• Sexism is Not Extinct: What it Looks Like and How to Respond (Comstock’s Magazine)

• Sexism and Super Bowl (Society Pages)

• A Fight for Men’s Rights, in California Courts (The New York Times)

• Why Most Obituaries Are Still of White Men (The New York Times)
• Discrimination Against Women Is Common Across Races, Ethnicities, Identities (National Public Radio)
• Nearly 900 People Have Won Nobel Prizes. Only 48 Were Women. (National Geographic)

Institutional Sexism & The Workplace

• Nearly half of US female scientists leave full-time science after first child (Nature)

• Women face tougher job interviews than men (Bazaar)
• Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? (The Atlantic)
• Man Thought Workplace Sexism Was a "Minor Nuisance" Until He Swapped Email Signatures (Self)
• The Sexism They Faced - One colleague’s constant refrain: “When are you going to have babies and quit?” (The Atlantic)

Gender & Work

• All the “choices” that lead to women being paid less than men (Quartz)

• Female Entrepreneurs Of Color Say Access To Birth Control Was “Critical” To Their Success (Bustle)
• Millennial women are surging ahead of their male counterparts in the job market (Business Insider)

Sexual Harassment

• What Happened When I Started Answering Back To My Catcallers (HuffPost)
• Everyone has a different idea about what harassment is (The Verge)
• Can You Guess The Worst Industry for Sexual Harassment? (Inc.)
• One spreadsheet reveals the horrifying ubiquity of sexual harassment in academia (Quartz)
• #MeToo? In 80 years, no American woman has won Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ by herself (The Washington Post)
• Why Street Harassers Speak The Same Language Across The U.S. (NPR)
• 'He Was Masturbating… I Felt Like Crying': What Housekeepers Endure To Clean Hotel Rooms (Huff Post)

Income Inequality

• Why does the gender wage gap still exist? (CNN)

• Equal Pay Day: a wage gap fact check (The Guardian)
• This is When American Women Will be Paid as Much as Men (Market Watch)
• How Men’s Economic Struggles Can Look Like Good News for Women, When actually everyone is having a hard time (The Atlantic)
• A Survey Asked 1,000 Women About Their Finances and Here's What They Said (Money)
• The truth about the gender wage gap (Vox)
• 4 of the biggest myths about the gender pay gap (Salon)
• The gender wage gap just shrank for the first time in a decade (Los Angeles Times)
• Why higher ed needs to get rid of the gender gap for 'academic housekeeping' (The Conversation)
• Gender Wage Gap Widens to 43 Percent by Age 45 (NBC News)

Gender Violence

• 'Female Simulations' Show Horrific Patterns of Drunk Male Sexual Aggression (Inverse)
• Why Are So Many Women Being Killed in Rich Countries? (OZY)
• This Woman’s Tweet About Being “Standoffish” & “Rude” In Public Makes A Powerful Point (Bustle)
• If we want to end rape culture, we need to address insufficient sex education (Mic)

Social Policy

• Gender Equality Is Linked To Higher Contraceptive Use In Teens (Bustle)
• Oregon becomes first state to allow official third gender option (The Guardian)
• Associated Press issues new guidance on sex, gender: ‘avoid’ referring to ‘both’ or ‘either’ sexes (The Washington Times)

Global Trends

• Iceland's answer to gender equality: Compensate for differences between boys, girls (NBC News)

Global Culture

• In the Philippines they think about gender differently. We could too (The Guardian)