Today, Equal Pay Day, marks the wage gap: the fact that full-time women workers earn 77 percent of what full-time male workers do. One major reason is job segregation by […]
Author: Lisa Wade
More Sexy Toy Makeovers: My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, and Candy Land
Previously the Sociological Images blog has posted on the sexy makeovers recently given to Dora the Explorer, Strawberry Shortcake, Holly Hobby, Lisa Frank, Trolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, and the Sun […]
Male Mantis Need Not Pray: Cannibal Female Myth Exposed
Bug lovers will recall that the female praying mantis cannibalizes the head of her sexual partner upon mating. Wrote Leland Ossian Howard in Science, Vol VIII (1886): Placing them in […]
What Do Sexy Halloween Costumes for Men Look Like?
In many parts of the Western world, Halloween (for adult women, and increasingly for girls too) has morphed into an opportunity or imperative to dress “sexy”. Such costumes for women […]