What the editors of 6000 journals tell us about gender, international diversity, open access, and research transparency

The results show overwhelming US and European dominance, not surprisingly. And male dominance, which is more extreme among editors in chief, across all disciplines.

The one-child policy was bad and so is “One Child Nation”

Nothing against watching it, but it's not good.

Let’s raise the legal age of marriage in Maryland

Today I sent the following letter to the Maryland House Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to hold a hearing on these bills tomorrow. Under current law in Maryland, marriage is permitted as young as age 15 with parental consent and evidence of pregnancy or childbirth, and age 16-17 with one or the other, and these…

Wives’ share of couple income update

26% of wives earn more than their husbands.

A miracle of wrong: Hanna Rosin error reborn in Mark Regnerus book

They both use facts not to learn from but to demonstrate things they think they already know.

The amazing lack of gender progress in Hollywood, Weinstein and not

No progress toward integration in Weinstein movies, Hollywood overall, or management jobs in general.

Women’s Equality Day earnings data stuff and suffrage note

Tomorrow is Women’s Equality Day, which commemorates the day, in 1920, when U.S. women were granted the right to vote. (Asterisk: White women.) One historical story Congress finally passed a Constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage in 1918, after decades of activism. The suffrage movement in the end successfully made a few convincing arguments – and…

Kids these days really know how to throw off a narrative on gender and families

Still, a big reversal among young adults on attitudes toward homemaker-breadwinner family arrangements.

Sex segregation propositions in 140 characters

In response to an annoying conversation on Twitter about this short paper, which felt very familiar, here is an argument about the sex segregation of work, in the form of unsourced propositions of 140 characters or less. You can find most of these in longer form in various posts under the segregation tag. It's tweetstorm,…

Gender on the Diane Rehm show in September

The last Media Matters report on the Sunday TV talk shows reported that 73% of guests were men in 2015, a little less than the 75% recorded for the previous two years. (That includes journalists as well as politicos.) I expect my local NPR station, with its liberal audience, to have a better showing for women, and…