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A protester at the Bring Back Our Girls rally in New York City, which took place last week.

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The U.S. Is Going to Help Try to Find the Still-Missing Nigerian School Girls

President Obama pledges immediate, on-the-ground support

An overly alluring research subject.

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Biologists Are Biased Toward Penises

Researchers interested in the evolution of animal genitalia tend to focus on the male side of that equation, often unjustifiably ignoring the female

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For 100 Years, Female Students Have Gotten Better Grades in Every Subject

Yes, that includes math and science

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Young Men Often Deal With Unwanted Sexual Advances From Women

Nearly half of the male students surveyed said they had been on the receiving end of an attempt at sexual coercion

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Women Pitching the Same Exact Ideas As Men Still Get Less Funding From Venture Capitalists

Men have a quantifiable advantage over women when pitching their businesses

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Spider Monkeys Are the Only Other Primate Species That Segregates by Sex

Spider monkey females are basically living together in a feminist commune to escape the aggressive, greedy males

Angel Haze, whose album dropped in December after months of fighting with her label.

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The Number of Female Rappers Signed to Major Labels Dropped From 40 to Just Three

Female MC’s, rappers and producers haven’t gone away; they just aren’t getting contracts with major labels anymore

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Hollywood Overvalues Older Male Actors And Undervalues Older Women

A female movie star’s salary peaks at age 34, and then drops off the cliff. Men hit their peak earnings at 51, and keep on making money

Judit Polgar is currently the only woman in the top 100 chess players in the world. Here, she is playing about a dozen other kids at chess. At the same time. She beat them all.

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This Does Really Happen: Stereotypes Undermine Performance

Stereotype threat can be hard to prove in real life situation, but here’s a really good example of how it works

Looks like some scientists could use a quick Gender Theory 101 course.

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Some Scientific Journals Are Still Confusing Sex and Gender

Sex and gender are not synonyms, yet some scientific journals continue to use them interchangeably

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“Men and women. Women and men. It will never work.” –Erica Jong

Where Men See White, Women See Ecru

Neuroscientists prove what we always suspected: the two sexes see the world differently

Cover of the Jan 1950 issue of Redbook

Aldous Huxley’s Predictions for 2000 A.D.

The famous author envisioned a brave new world where swelling populations would put tremendous strain on the Earth’s resources

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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions from the 1950s

The cure for lonely space missions? One astronomer proposed hiring astronaut concubines

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It’s a Woman’s World With the End of Men

Men are floundering in the 21st century, according to Hanna Rosin, and the shift has wide-ranging implications for the workplace and the home

A woman is made to smell her partner's body odors to see if they're suitable for marriage

Mechanical Matchmaking: The Science of Love in the 1920s

Four “scientific” tests to determine whether your marriage will succeed or fail

The woman of the year 2030, illustrated by Edward McKnight Kauffer in 1930

Lab-grown Babies in the Year 2030

A 1930 book argued that women’s “liberation from the dangers of childbirth” would be a crucial first step toward gender equality

Woman of the year 2000

In The Future, All Women Will Be Amazons

Thanksgiving meal in a pill

A Thanksgiving Meal (in-a-pill)

The future of food was envisioned by many prognosticators as entirely meatless and often synthetic

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