By J. Goodrich The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children By Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett Columbia University Press Consider this vision of the ideal classrooms: one for girls, one for boys. The first is filled with quiet, focused girls comfortable sitting at their desks for long periods of […]
Author: J Goodrich
J. Goodrich is an economist. She blogs on feminism and other political topics at echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com.
How a Nonexistent Study is Predicting the Future and Ignoring Women
Have you heard about the new study concerning rising rates of depression among men, as a consequence of both the mancession (men losing their breadwinner jobs in the latest recessio,n which will depress them) and changing social gender roles (men having to become house-husbands, which will depress them)? Neither have I, because the study doesn’t […]
Shed a Tear for Good Reporting
The MSNBC headline: “Stop the waterworks, ladies. Crying chicks aren’t sexy.” Now what on earth could that be about? Turns out it’s this study by Israeli neurobiologists : In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, the Weizmann Institute of Science researchers collected emotional tears from female volunteers by showing them sad movies. Then […]