On the whole, female graduates in the US (and elsewhere) are both far more likely to marry than non-graduates and have been more likely to have children in wedlock. Thus, for college graduates, in ...

Certain biases can shape our expectations ...

For those who haven’t entrenched themselves as deeply into the world of the humanities as I have, taking so many HDFS and WGSS courses that this all becomes a repetitive review each semester, gender ...

Old-fashioned gender roles tend to sneak their way into our everyday experiences, shaping the expectations and roles individuals play throughout their lives. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

Pink for girls and blue for boys feels like common sense — but history and science tell a different story. Across cultures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marriage has evolved quite a bit over the years, but if you chat with some boomers, you might find that they still hold onto some ...

The discrepancy in sexual desire remains one of the most common yet complex issues treated by sex and relationship therapists. Couples often feel frustrated when their partner desires sex more or less ...

Stephanie, a woman with a director-level position at a company recently shared with me that despite having progressive company leaders, she and her female peer kept being asked to manage ...

What does a scientist look like? When the draw-a-scientist study (DAST) study was first conducted 50 years ago with elementary school students in the US and Canada, only twenty-eight of the 5,000 ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The phenomenon of the gender gap — the fact that women as a whole are more supportive of the ...