gender

I'm still not warm on Palin, but this was an interesting point (although I'm not sure if I completely agree ... especially if your entire life -- with family, job, mayorship -- is spent in one city).

Quoted: "A woman who can raise a family and work a job and run a city has the same ability to serve as a man who goes to college and gets a job as lawyer and runs for office," she said.

I was really happy to find that Kalpana Sharma, outstanding journalist from Mumbai, and author of 'Rediscovering Dharavi,' has a blog that archives her writings. Here is the link.

WPost and NYT agree this is one of the best non-fiction books of 2007

Quoted: Thomas Mallon’s novel explores the anti-gay purges of McCarthy-era Washington.

Stories like this never cease to intrigue me...

Quoted: Shouldn't there be about as many highly eligible and appealing men as there are attractive, eligible women? Here's a look at how economics and game theory can explain the shortage of available, appealing men.

Quoted: The unconscious is playing a political role this year, with evidence showing that most Americans have unconscious biases against blacks and women in executive roles.

chill for my women's studies class

Quoted: Timeline of Key Events in the American Women's Rights Movement

Quoted: Without an ultrasound can you predict the gender of your baby? Someone may tell you that the baby must be a boy because you are carrying low. Someone else may tell you that it must be a girl since you experienced severe morning sickness. Is there any truth to these methods, well...

This is really interesting.

Quoted: Police arrested a wife and her husband who was born a woman and underwent sex reassignment surgery 16 years ago and accused them Sunday of lying about the husband's gender to a court in eastern Pakistan.