If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
