Gender Bias in Health Research Leads to Unintended Consequences
In 2011, researchers from Smith College and the University of California, Berkeley compiled data from scientific research on mammals in ten fields, including neuroscience, pharmacology, and...
View Article'Good Karma' Isn't How Women Get Ahead in Tech
What's the best way for women to get ahead? It's a big question, and one that a generation of women in male-dominated industries like technology are thinking a lot about these days.Last week, Microsoft...
View ArticleLawsuit Details Silicon Valley's Culture of Sexism
Even in the famously male-dominated tech industry, venture capital might be the ultimate boys' club. A Silicon Valley gender discrimination case is challenging this exclusivity, alleging that a top...
View Article#GirlsWithToys: Women in Lab Coats Prove Science Isn't Just For Guys
In an interview on NPR's Weekend Edition last Saturday, male astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni said that many scientists are just "boys with toys." Around the world, women in STEM fields took to Twitter to...
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Firing of Female Marine Raises Questions About Equality in the Military
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Lt. Col. Kate Germano, who led the Marine Corps' only all-female recruit battalion, was relieved of her duties earlier this summer after her...
View ArticleDo Places Make Smaller Sandwiches For Women?
In this special Sporkful investigation, Dan and Slate's Laura "L.V." Anderson order sandwiches around New York City to find out whether sandwich sexism is real. Please subscribe to this podcast in...
View ArticleUnderstanding Gender Bias in Autism Research
One in every 68 children born in the United States is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Boys are supposedly four times more likely to have the condition, but clinicians often miss or...
View ArticleThe Life of a Scientist Told Through the Lives of Plants
Three-time Fulbright Award winner in geobiology, botanist Hope Jahren has been writing about "interactions between women and men and Academia" on her blog since 2013. Last month, she published an op-ed...
View ArticleBusting the Gender Myth to Empower Women to Call The Shots
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.In the past decade, women have stepped into top leadership roles in politics, the military, and across the business sector. Though some of the...
View ArticleIs Sandwich Sexism Real?
In this special Sporkful investigation, we order sandwiches around New York City to find out whether places make smaller sandwiches for women. (Repeat) Please subscribe to this podcast in iTunes or the...
View Article#BlackWomenAtWork Goes Viral as Women Take a Stand
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) spoke out against President Donald Trump on the House floor this week. A clip of her speech was played on...
View ArticleWeek 13: Feminism In The Age Of Trump
On this episode of Indivisible, we’re talking about feminism in the age of Trump. Are we all seeing politics and life through the lens of gender more than before the election?Collier Meyerson from The...
View ArticleWhen Women in Construction Are Harassed on the Worksite
"I would really appreciate it if men in the construction industry would call each other out for cat calling. Because it's disgusting."That's a voicemail WNYC received from Mike in Manhattan, who says...
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Is Pay Transparency a 'Thing' in Your Workplace?
Equal Pay Day, which falls on April 10th this year, is the approximate date when the average American woman's earnings finally catch up to what the average man earned in the previous year. (In other...
View ArticleFranchesca Ramsey Escalates the Conversation on Race, Identity & Activism
When video blogger and star of MTV's Decoded Franchesca Ramsey posted a YouTube video “What White Girls Say to Black Girls,” it went viral. Her new book, Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and...
View ArticleIs the World Ready for Male Birth Control?
Sarah Ellis discusses her new article in ReWire.News titled “Biology, Funding, and Ego Slow Quest for Male Birth Control.” Ellis looks at the obstacles to implementing male birth control including the...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Male Birth Control, Fighting Against Toxic Masculinity,...
Sarah Ellis and Logan Nickels discuss the challenges of bringing male birth control to the market, the main issue is shifting cultural attitudes towards birth control. Thomas Page McBee explores the...
View ArticleGender Bias In Research Trials, Antarctica, Tornado Engineering. June 7,...
For half a century, most neuroscience experiments have had one glaring flaw: They've ignored female study subjects. The reason? Researchers claimed, for example, that female rats and mice would skew...
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