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A new study shows that boys can shun and ostracize with the best of them. We’ll have to drop our “mean girls” bias to better understand how they do it.

• By Daniel Luzer

Marriage isn’t the happiness elixir America wants it to be. If anything, it simply distracts us from persisting economic and social injustices that undermine all types of relationships.

• By Maya Dusenbery

A new study reveals something decidedly vintage—but encourages us to think about gender in a new, and more nuanced, way.

• By Susan Ewing

Black men are stereotyped as violent, while black women are rendered invisible. Here's why the gendering of black lives matters.

• By Adia Harvey Wingfield

By outing rape accusers, the organization is poisoning the dialogue on campus sexual assault.

• By Ted Scheinman

A lot of men just don't read fiction, and if they do, structural misogyny drives them away from the genre.

• By Noah Berlatsky

How what was once standard footwear for 16th-century Persian horsemen became "fashion’s most provocative accessory."

• By Paul Hiebert

Both the NFL and the U.S. military cultivate and reward a form of hyper-violent masculinity. The consequences of doing so have never been more obvious.

• By Wendy Christensen

What makes it so hard for some men to question their own assumptions and so easy for them to act boldly and brutally when faced with closed doors?

• By Rebecca E. Biron

Or, more specifically, what's wrong with taking a steroid, while you're pregnant, to try to increase the odds that your female fetus will someday grow up to be a straight woman who gives you grandchildren, and not a lesbian daughter more interested in puppies?

• By Alice Dreger

By intentionally taking a step back from a career she worked hard to start, Alice Dreger estimates she has cost her family $750,000. Was it worth it?

• By Alice Dreger

Many of us probably get our core gender identities as much from our biological origins as we do from our gender educations.

• By Alice Dreger

Feminist scholars aren’t yet liberated from restrictive clothing norms, but at least they think about why they’re wearing what they’re wearing.

• By Alice Dreger

Low-income women, having been deceived by various people and institutions, are often justified in their lack of trust. And it’s making their lives even more difficult.

• By Jesse Singal

The families of individuals born with socially challenging bodies don't see them as they're portrayed in the medical literature.

• By Alice Dreger