Man woman couple height, updated

Humans could couple up differently, if they wanted to.

Why aren’t female Charlies killing the name Charles?

As girl Charlies have gained ground, Charlie is rising in the rankings for boys. Parents are now naming their boys Charlie at twice the rate they did in 1968.

Taylor, Kim and the declining sex binary in names

Over the long run, the U.S. is becoming a less sex-binary society, but that evolution is far from direct.

Wives’ share of couple income update

26% of wives earn more than their husbands.

Gender segregated sociology today

This updates a series of posts that have addressed gender in academic sociology, starting in 2011 and updated in 2015, along with various tweets (to see random fact tweets from me on Twitter, Google familyunequal "now you know"). Gender in academic sociology is complicated because the profession is running pretty female these days, with more than…

Visiting Israel, with demography (this is not sustainable edition)

With audio, and photographs! Israel's trajectory is unsustainable in more ways than one. The political situation is not the subject of this post, but it's necessary to say at the beginning that the oppression of Palestinians by the state of Israel, made possible by the United States, is morally unacceptable and relative to all the…

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.