Despite increased interest in promoting gender equality in the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUP, significant gender inequality remains in the U.S. Women account for 24 percent of U.S. Senators, 28.8 ...

Gender roles are stereotypes regarding attitudes, attributes, and actions imposed on men and women based on gender. These kinds of preconceptions are usually harmful to society — yet, understanding ...

Nothing quite says we're living in the era of being unapologetically yourself than the sight of American singer and rapper Lizzo twerking in a near-naked dress for her millions of followers on social ...

Local theaters have been flicking the gender switch again. There was the national tour of “Company” a couple of weeks ago at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, with the lead male role of Robert changed ...

Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning framework that uses scene descriptions in movie scripts to automatically recognize different characters' actions. Applying the framework to hundreds ...

School can quickly dispel myths in a student. Lightning doesn't magically appear, we never use "if" with a verb in the conditional tense, and it was while searching for a sea route to China or the ...

Coming-of-age novels can give readers young and old insight into their own evolving identity and how to navigate a confusing, messy world. But there is another feature of the genre that isn't so ...