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Toru Hanai / Reuters The ‘Noble Savage’ Diet
How a 1930s dentist's trip around the world spawned today's Paleo fad—and some dangerous ideas about health
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters Should Paid 'Menstrual Leave' Be a Thing?
Some countries mandate a legal right to leave for women during their periods. Is that reverse sexism or the right thing to do?
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Reuters Global Ghosts: 7 Tales of Specters From Around the World
In Nordic countries, ghosts pinch you and cause a plague-like disease, but in Japan, they just want you to tell them they’re pretty.
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Elaine Thompson/AP Alcohol Education Is Not Rape Apology
It’s not victim-blaming to educate women—and men—on alcohol’s connection to sexual assault.
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Theories on Why Women Don't Enjoy Succeeding at Work as Much as Men Do
New research suggests that men are more likely to reap the emotional benefits of doing well in their careers than women are.
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Chick Lit Remixed: The Simple Brilliance of Gender-Flipping
What if "chick lit" was marketed to men? Or if articles about teen sex focused on boys instead of girls? A wide range of websites are asking those questions in creative ways, with funny (and meaningful) results.
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In Liberal Europe, Abortion Laws Come With Their Own Restrictions
While some U.S. policymakers are motivated by morality, other nations see babies as a common good.
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'The Royal Body Exists to Be Looked At'
The intense scrutiny Kate Middleton has endured ever since she and Prince William started dating is an amplified version of the scrutiny all women experience.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Memoirs of an Un-Smiling Woman
How does it feel to grow up with people constantly asking you, "What's the matter, sweetheart?"
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Why Do So Many People Like Looking at Images of Women Committing Suicide?
Drawings, paintings, and photographs of dead young women have been popular for centuries.
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Chick Lit Is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit
Thanks to the economy, picket fences and scruffy farm hands have replaced stilettos and cute i-bankers in literature aimed at women.
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The Women Who Scooped Michael Pollan by 200 Years
Long before the modern food movement, Catharine Beecher, Ellen Swallow Richards, and many others tried to increase the public's estimation of home cooking.
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Adoptees Shouldn't Have to Use Facebook to Find Their Birth Parents
The recent "Adoptee Searching Picture Meme" highlights what's wrong with the American adoption system.
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Healthy, Affordable Fast Food: Feminism's Holy Grail
Life would be so much easier for working parents if they could easily buy inexpensive meals for their families.
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The Complex, Often Idealistic Reasons Feminists Become Housewives
Progressive women who devote themselves to domesticity aren't nearly as annoying as New York magazine makes them out to be.
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How Parenting Became a DIY Project
From home birth to homemade baby food to homeschooling, raising kids is a way for parents to express their individuality.
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Betty Friedan Did Not Kill Home Cooking
Lots of factors contributed to families abandoning from-scratch meals , but feminism isn't one of them.
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Think Twice Before Quitting Your Job to Sell Homemade Jam
The false promise of the stay-at-home mom who makes money from her crafts
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Farmers Markets and Home Births Are So Progressive, They're Conservative
All-natural domesticity has adherents on both sides of the political spectrum.
