Wage Gap for Working Mothers May Cost Billions
New studies indicate that while wage gaps between women and men in entry-level jobs are slight, working mothers are paid 70 cents for every dollar that men receive. For childless women, the gap is 10...
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Men Prefer Sexy, Smart UnStepfords, Yes, Really
A spate of recent media suggests that what men really want are women in traditional roles. Our commentators debunk that. The most happily married women, they say, are those who think for themselves and...
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Abu Ghraib Pulls ‘Better Angels’ Down to Earth
The latest word on the prison-abuse scandal is that medical people were also involved. The revelation should help to deflate high-flown and actually harmful ideas about any category of...
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Housework Gap Closes for Dual-Earner Couples
For a treat after the Thanksgiving meal, our commentators serve up a feast of statistics about men in dual-earner couples. Not only are these guys doing a lot more work around the house, they're even...
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What Dads Don’t Need for Father’s Day
Two parenting books are off the Father's Day gift list say Rivers and Barnett. A feminist analysis of the books, they say, found them laden with stereotypes and scary stories that give contemporary...
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Why Dowd Doesn’t Know What Men Really Want
Today's commentators say it's a shame that Maureen Dowd should depend on such flaky research and flimsy evidence when writing about feminism. Dowd's article, based on weak research, was the most...
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Holiday Toys Sell Girls on Primping and Passivity
Toy buyers beware this holiday shopping season. Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett say pink-and-blue aisles and gender-coded departments are stocked high with gender bias that sends a message to...
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‘Boy Crisis’ in Education Is Nothing But Hype
A "boy crisis" is boiling up in media coverage of education, based on the perception that girls are outstripping boys academically. Today's commentators argue that the discussion should be about social...
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Women Happier as Homemakers? Time to Recheck Data
A recent study bandied about in the news media finds women are more happily married when their husbands win the bread. The finding is so different from related research that our commentators call it an...
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Career Women Bad Wives? Let’s Ask the Guys
Female bloggers just stood up to Forbes.com, the latest media outlet to say career women make bad wives. Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett review the episode and vow to keep up their own battle against...
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U.S. Women May See Independence in Singlehood
Recent headlines have noted the growing singlehood of U.S. women, and the stories haven't all been celebratory. But Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett say that single women no longer have the cards...
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Data on Scientists Hushes Media Echo Chamber
A conference on women and science earlier this week caught our commentators by surprise. Despite a media soundtrack saying "Larry Summers was right," they found a sophisticated discussion that helped...
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Recession Doesn’t Mean Doing His Housework
In a raging recession, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett caution women against thinking they'll help their husbands' and male partners' job security by doing his share of the housework. The first of...
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‘Getting to Yes’ Skills Useful at Home Too
The worst aspects of the "second shift" may be abating, but Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett say women's reluctance to negotiate with their mates could be a major obstacle in getting a fair deal in...
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Don’t Read Too Much Into Boys’ Verbal Scores
Boys' poorer reading levels in a recent study are feeding a troubling tendency to lower literacy expectations for boys, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett. It's just as destructive as the old...
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Left Behind? Actually, More Boys Take ‘Gifted’ Test
News stories abound about girls suddenly outperforming boys in the very early grades, obscuring the fact that increasingly more boys than girls are taking "gifted" tests. Either way, Rosalind C....
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Single-Sex Ed Based on Baloney Science
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett applaud a Boston school administrator's decision to back off single-sex education. Too many of these schools, they argue, are based on spurious ideas about boy-girl...
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Flawed Study Dismissing Job Bias Thrills Media
The media is having a heyday with a study that came out earlier this month finding that scientific women are stalled by their own lifestyle choices, not discrimination. Co-authors Roz Barnett and Caryl...
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‘Mancession’ Focus Masks Women’s Real Losses
A persistent myth about men suffering worse job-loss woes in this recession cries out for a few additional facts, along with Carrie Lukas' whopper in the Wall Street Journal about the end of the gender...
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Women Are Aggressors in Household Violence Too
It's not just boys and men who are aggressive, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett in "The Truth About Girls and Boys." But in this excerpt from their new book, they note that women are far more...
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