TrueChild imagines a world where boys and girls are free from stereotypes so they can live, learn and grow to reach their full potential.
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STRAIGHTLACED: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up—new film from Oscar-winning director explores the troubling dynamics of gender in school. More info, trailer: http://groundspark.org/our-films-and-cam
Source: groundspark.org
From girls confronting popular messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren't gay, the students in Straightlaced illustrate the toll that deeply held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on all of our lives.
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Alpha princesses? Making passive princesses brave, strong, and assertive role models http://www.thestar.com/living/halloween/
Source: www.thestar.com
How did this happen? Every mother in the room was a daughter of the feminist generation, which fought for nice things like pay equity and maternity leave. So why do we let our daughters dress up like 1950s housewives-in-the-making?
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Analysis: Study of online gender-swapping flawed, overstated: http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2008
Source: www.youhaventlived.com
I got home from Portsmouth yesterday and read the newspaper while waiting for Torchwood to come on. My eyes were drawn to this article in particular:This is ... news?Oh, it's news alright. The Press Association and Channel 4 made it that. ...
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Study: Men trying on female avatars & women trying out being males in virtual worlds: http://www.pixelsandpolicy.com/pixels_an
Source: www.pixelsandpolicy.com
Pixels and Policy reports on our study of gender roles in Second Life. As it turns out, no one is objectifying women in Second Life. They're doing it to themselves.
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Sexism in the workplace still exists--"Men get benefit of the doubt" & 9 more unwritten rules for working women: http://www.fropki.com/top-unwritten-rule
Source: www.fropki.com
When it comes to gender stereotyping, it's better to know what you're up against. Come to think of it, when was the last time you ...
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He’s Baaaackk! Mattel launches new “Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken”: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/la
Source: www.nypost.com
A date with Barbie is the last thing on this Ken doll's mind!
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New study from Danish gov't: Chemical exposure "feminizing" boys, depressing bio-sex. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthco
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Gender-bending chemicals are largely exempt from new EU regulations, warns Geoffrey Lean.
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Yet more advice on picking boys' Halloween costumes, this time from the always-classy (and honest, alas) Onion: http://www.truechild.org/Blog/Blog.asp?p
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A good overview of how gender roles work in US society, from GI Joe to Hillary Clinton to Emeril: http://www.technicianonline.com/features
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According to the dictionary, gender is defined as the state of being male or female. In the most basic way, what makes males and females different is physical anatomy; however, in society what makes ...
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Ralph Lauren's new ad features a Photoshop-deformed body—and it's not the 1st time. How to teach kids to resist: http://www.truechild.org/Blog/Blog.asp?p
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"Packaging Boyhood" authors & The Dad Man offer 10 tips for choosing Halloween costumes for your son http://www.truechild.org/Blog/Blog.asp?p
Source: www.truechild.org
Parents are rightly concerned about "too sexy too soon" Halloween costumes for little girls, but does anyone ask, "What about the boys?" The search for boys' costumes can be treacherous too and just as filled with over-hyped and stereotyped "choices." These healthy ideas from Drs. ...
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New Book: Pink Brain, Blue Brain – M/F birth brains mostly same but small diffs enhanced by yrs of diff treatment http://www.truechild.org/PageDisplay.asp
Source: www.truechild.org
In one of the eye-opening studies cited in Lise Eliot's masterful new book on gender and the brain, mothers brought their 11-month-olds to a lab so the babies could crawl down a carpeted slope. The moms ...
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Gender in Pixar -- In depth analysis of lack of strong girl leading characters
http://agcrump.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/
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Pixar’s 2009 3D animated feature, the truly excellent Up, follows an old man’s bid to see out his deceased wife’s wish of living atop a hidden valley located somewhere in South America; ...
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Plain Dealer: Tough guys get sicker because they think seeing doctors = not being a Real Man http://www.cleveland.com/medical/plainde
Source: www.cleveland.com
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US Census: Profsnl moms who sideline careers for kids mostly a myth http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
A first census snapshot of married women who stay home to raise their children shows that the popular obsession with high-achieving professional mothers sidelining careers for family life is largely beside the point.
