gender norms
The Far-Left Women Activists Picking Up Weapons
Women who choose violent resistance are seen as an anomaly. Their use of force represents a double transgression – of gender norms and state laws.
I Got Pampered at a Men’s Nail Bar
Hygiene is inherently genderless, so what’s the point of opening a nail bar specifically for men?
I Owe Everything to Miss Piggy, a Size-Positive Icon Ahead of Her Time
Even as a child, years before I came out, there was always a special place in my heart for any character willing to punch a silk-gloved fist straight through that gender binary.
What It's Like to Be Raised Gender Neutral
We spoke to kids and parents about the benefits and challenges of a gender-neutral upbringing.
This couple bucked stereotypes to start a violin business from home
Robert Wood is a violin maker in Salt Lake City who quit his job at a renowned violin shop to start his own business.
Men Told Us What They'd Like to Do If It Wasn't Seen as 'Unmanly'
And also what they'd do if they were a woman for the day.
Cooking with Muxes, Mexico's Third Gender
Muxes are people who are born biologically male and dress as women—but they don't consider themselves cross-dressers or transgender. Instead, they are treated as “the third gender,” and they identify neither as men nor as women.
Joe Biden Said Guys Who Ignore Misogyny Are 'Accomplices' to Sexual Assault
Speaking at DC's first ever United State of Women Summit, the vice president asked men to end the "locker room talk, the bar banter, the rape jokes."
New York's Bartenders Can No Longer Refuse to Serve Pregnant Women Alcohol
City officials are now warning bartenders that hindering a pregnant woman’s right to drink in public is a discriminatory act.
Breaking the Binary in Hillary Clinton's Pantsuits
Photographer Matthew Leifheit and stylist Miyako Bellizzi reinterpret some of Hillary Clinton's most iconic political moments with an androgynous cast of models wearing gender-fluid pantsuits.
Young Women Drink Almost Half the Wine in America
As a group, Millennials drank 159.6 million cases of wine in 2015. That's more than any other generation and constitutes 42 percent of all of the wine consumed in the US last year.
Japanese Men Get All the Candy on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day in Japan has taken a few twists in translation, adding a gender-role shakeup that is completely foreign to the way the holiday is celebrated in the rest of the world.