Gender Roles

On the 50th anniversary of "The Feminine Mystique," the founder of Pacific Standard recalls saving the life of the headstrong author of that groundbreaking book.

How the gleaming white fridge changed our relationship to food.

German researchers report putting long hair on a robot is sufficient to get people to assign it “feminine” tasks.

Anthropologist Christopher von Rueden's studies of a Bolivian tribe suggest that men's instinctive drive for power is a strategy to seed their descendants thickly.

New research suggests men lose status if their supervisor holds a position traditionally occupied by a member of the opposite sex.

For men and women in leadership positions usually occupied by the other gender, a single mistake is seen as evidence of incompetence.

Newly published research finds men are as willing as women to apologize. But they’re less likely to believe a particular incident warrants contrition.

Recent scholarship and popular journalism both suggest an unappealing future for American boys: You're screwed.

Proverbial sayings such as “we’re all human” reduce feelings of regret and hypocrisy after men get into trouble. But new research finds they don’t have the same soothing effect on women.

Working magicians conjure up rationales — both beneficial and baneful — for why so few women perform magic.

A greater percentage of TV characters are female, a new study notes, but it's still mostly guys offstage.