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Women react to Rush’s apology: Not accepted?
msnbc: The outcry over Rush Limbaugh calling birth control activist Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute,” seems to have worked. Several days after his attempt to slut-shame the Georgetown University law student, Limbaugh issued a rare apology
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Will Pay for Status
Huffington Post: There are lots of ways to show other people that you have status. I travel a lot, and the airlines treat frequent travelers specially. At the start of the boarding process, the people
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Math Gender Gap Not Result of Girls’ Low Self-Esteem, Researchers Say
The Huffington Post: Are girls bad at math? From a talking Barbie doll saying “Math class is tough” to Larry Summers, the ex-President of Harvard University, speaking on the “different availability of aptitude,” it’s an
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Gender And Humor: Was Christopher Hitchens Right When He Said Women Aren’t Funny?
Huffington Post: Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who passed away last month, never lacked targets for his writerly ire: Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal — even Mother Teresa was not immune. But in a polarizing
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Study of the Day: Want to Improve a Woman’s Driving Skills? Flatter Her
The Atlantic: PROBLEM: Previous studies — and far too many sexist jokes — have discussed how women are not as skilled as men when it comes to tasks like parking and map-reading that require spatial
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Robert Rydell
Indiana University Bloomington, USA http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/pages/rydell.asp What does your research focus on? I am currently engaged in two distinct lines of research. Members of my lab and I have been most interested recently in stereotype threat