The other day my son blurted out “blue is for boys and pink is for girls.” I was quite surprised, since his favorite color was pink just two years ago. He also recently told me that “boys are strong ...

Despite increased interest in promoting gender equality in the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUP, significant gender inequality remains in the U.S. Women account for 24 percent of U.S. Senators, 28.8 ...

March is Women's History Month. As far as we have come in 2024, gender stereotypes continue to impede women’s career advancement. In a 2024 Annual Reviews article, Heilman, Caleo, and Manzi highlight ...

How do you write a job advertisement that appeals to both men and women? This question is particularly pressing in French, where every noun has a clearly visible grammatical gender. University ...

Post written by Dr Francesca Manzi, Assistant Professor of Management in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr Manzi’s research focuses on the ways ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...

Children’s literature constitutes a formative cultural space in which notions of gender identity and social roles are both reflected and shaped. Historically, narratives have privileged male ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

A "sex stereotyping" claim arises when an employee alleges that his or her employer engaged in discrimination because the employee failed to adhere to "sex stereotypes" for men or women. A "sex ...

Even when the intention is to express equality, speech can still reinforce gender stereotypes, because biases can slip through via subtle linguistic cues. For example, a subject-complement statement ...

More and more Dutch girls are opting for a science subject cluster at secondary school, choosing subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry. Nevertheless, the number of women working in ...