That's not fair, as Hanna Rosin at Slate will shortly point out. Pediatric endocrinologist Maria New-of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University-isn't just trying to prevent lesbianism by treating pregnant women with an experimental hormone. She's also trying to prevent the births of girls who display an "abnormal" ( Read more... )

Winston-Salem, NC -- Contrary to popular belief, the ups and downs of romantic relationships have a greater effect on the mental health of young men than women, according to a new study by a Wake Forest University sociology professor ( Read more... )

Clitoral surgery: FYI and a chill pill
So I've seen a lot of people online getting into an uproar about this Cornell University study by Yang, Felsen, and Poppas called "Nerve Sparing Ventral Clitoroplasty: Analysis of Clitoral Sensitivity and Viability" published in 2007. You can read the paper here.

Dan Savage has posted a harsh rebuttal, as ( Read more... )

Sort of a follow up to this post.


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Pregnancy is often fraught with complications, not least for women suffering from depression while carrying a child: new research suggests that women who take antidepressant medications during pregnancy may have an increased risk of miscarriage.

Scientists at University of Montreal report Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal ( Read more... )

Fellatio, fruit bats, and allegations of sexual harassment. These are the ingredients of a scandal boiling over in Ireland at the University College Cork (UCC). Last year, a formal complaint of sexual harassment was lodged against biologist Dylan Evans by an unnamed UCC colleague. A few months ago, after a committee investigated ( Read more... )

An interesting, if flawed, article to kick off the discussion~

"Atheists Need a Different Voice"
USA Today, Dec. 7, 2009

"[...]Today, most Americans associate unbelief with the old-boys network of New Atheists, but there is a new generation of unbelievers emerging, some of them women and most of them far friendlier than Hitchens and his ilk. ( Read more... )

Biases said to hinder women in math, sciences
Tamar Lewin, New York Times

A report on the under-representation of women in science and math by the American Association of University Women, to be released today, found that although women have made gains, stereotypes and cultural biases still impede their success.The report, "Why So Few?" supported ( Read more... )

Why Women Don't Want Macho Men


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