Lisa Wade, Author at Pacific Standard

What Does It Mean to Drink Like a Woman?

Going out in an androcentric world.

Sit in meetings, mostly.

None of our coins are actually worth what they cost. And even that worth is based on some collectively agreed upon fantasy.

As data journalism has its moment in the media, a reminder that we bring our own assumptions to the reading of charts and graphs.

An effective way to change or eradicate norms delimiting how men and women are expected to behave.

New research shows that countries with a lot of ethnic diversity experience greater economic growth when they have a female head of state.

An animation using Census data makes clear how family income has changed in America's Second City over 40-plus years.

The “sexy model face” isn’t built into our DNA, bone structure, or psychology, but projected.