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Marital Happiness, Reproduction and Traditional Gender Roles
Stephanie Coontz, director of research at the Council on Contemporary Families, addresses recent research that suggests that "marital quality drops, often quite steeply, after the transition to parenthood" in an op-ed piece in the New York Times. This conclusion was...
Girls More Confident After 2008 Election
A study by the Girl Scout Research Institute reveals that girls aged 13 to 17 are more confident after the 2008 presidential election. According to the study, 50% of girls believe they have more confidence and that they can reach their goals; 55% feel more comfortable...
Court Upholds School's Right to Expel Students Based On Sexual Orientation
In 2005, a private California high school expelled two students because they were suspected of being lesbians. The 4th District Court of Appeals, in a decision filed last week, ruled 3-0 that the school has the right to expel students on the basis of their suspected...
WLP on WITF and Pay Equity
Last week, WLP Senior Staff Attorney Susan Frietsche appeared on Radio Smart Talk on 89.5 WITF in Harrisburg. She discussed a recent study conducted by Keystone Research Center which found that the pay gap between men and women widened in Pennsylvania between 2003 and...
Our Gender-Bilingual President?
Aviva Wittenberg-Cox, founder and publisher of Women-omics, wrote an opinion piece for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this weekend. The article points out that even though President Obama seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of previous presidents as "gender-bilingual,"...
