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Gender Issues
Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?
by Lena Nekby, Peter Skogman Thoursie and Lars Vahtrik, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, Sweden, May 8, 2007.
Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear
by Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, December 2, 2006.
Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender Preferences
by Alix Spiegel, National Public Radio, May 7, 2008.
Violence Against Women
For Muslim Women, a Deadly Defiance
by Colin Nickerson, Boston Globe , January 16, 2006.
Maze of injustice -- the failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
by Amnesty International, April 2007.
Punished for Being Female [Op-Ed]
by Bob Herbert, New York Times, November 2, 2006.
Sati
by Barbara Ramusack & Janelle Collett, Women in World History.
Sexuality
Is There a Sex Crisis on College Campuses?
by Meghan O'Rourke, Slate Magazine, February 20, 2007
Reducing Demand for Prostitutes
by R. Kling, W. Rhodes, P. Finn, C. Flygare, L. Tierney, D. Hunt, D. Squires, C. Dyous, & K. Wheeler, National Institute of Justice, March 2008.
Sex and the Teenage Girl
by Caitlin Flanagan, New York Times, Januaryr 13, 2008.
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias
by Sam Dillion, New York Times, February 25, 2007
Movies, Music, Art, Literature, etc.
A Surge of Sexism On the Rock Scene
by Ann Powers, New York Times, August 2, 1999.
Women Confront 'Celluloid Ceiling' in Hollywood
by Gloria Hillard, National Public Radio, November 27, 2005.
Marriage & Families
51% of Women are Now Living Without Spouse
by Sam Roberts, New York Times, January 16, 2007.
Depression and the Psychological Benefits of Entering Marriage
by Adrianne Frech and Kristi Williams, Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2007, Vol 48 (June): 149-163.
I Do, Kind Of
by Amy Benfer, Salon Magazine, August 15, 2001.
Love, Honor, Cherish And Buy
by Patricia Cohen, New York Times, May 9, 2007.
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, Penn Population Studies Center Working Paper, May 10, 2007.
Marriage & Divorce: Supporting the Ex-Husband
by Stacey L. Bradford, Smart Money, December 6, 2006.
State of the World's Mothers 2007
by Save the Children, 2007.
Why are there so Many Single Americans?
by Kate Zernike, New York Times, January 21, 2007.
Work & Wages
Among Tech Execs, Women Make More Than Men by Deborah Perelman, PC Magazine, January 25, 2007.
Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women's Labor Supply Revisited
by Betsey Stevenson, Penn Population Studies Center Working Paper
, May 2007.
Mind the gap – Women’s and men’s quality of work and employment [Background paper]
by Eurofound, April 28, 2008
Self-Employed Women Differ From Their Wage And Salary Earning Counterparts
by US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, April 28, 2008
Women at Work: A Progress Report
by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, May 2007.
WOMEN WORKING: 1870-1930
A digital collection of primary source materials for teaching, learning, and research.
Health & Wellness
Designers Face a Weighty Problem
by Robin Givhan, Washington Post, February 2, 2007: Page C01.
Crime, Politics & Government
The Family-Friendly Congress? [Op-Ed]
by Judith Warner, New York Times, November 10, 2006
When Women Rule [Op-Ed]
by Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, February 10, 2008
Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System
by National Criminal Justice Reference Service, December 2007.
Education
What Boy Crisis? [Op-Ed]
by Judith Warner, New York Times, July 3, 2006
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