Research shows that men’s consumer choices are shaped by an unconscious bias against femininity and, in turn, against more eco-friendly behaviors. Many men tend to avoid products marketed as environmentally responsible because they “want to feel macho, and they worry that eco-friendly behaviors might brand them as feminine.”

Hawley’s speech showed how resistance to shifting gender roles can be braided into a broader conservative message of defending “traditional” American values against accelerating change.

From Jane Austen to Rosa Parks, from Joan Didion to Stacey Abrams, saying no has been the key to female self-respect and political empowerment.

Straight, married couples in the U.S. still almost always give kids the father’s last name. Why?

In their personal lives, sociologists attempt to ward off the same inequalities that they study at work.

A new documentary exposes how the controversial cult brand LuLaRoe sold a powerful idea: that mothers could succeed as entrepreneurs while spending meaningful time with their kids.

Some advocates on the left want America to talk about pregnancy and birth in gender-neutral terms. But this language change might not be so easy for the country to embrace.

Last year, U.S. colleges enrolled 1.5 million fewer students than five years ago, and men accounted for more than 70 percent of the decline. American colleges and universities now enroll roughly six women for every four men. This is the largest female-male gender gap in the history of higher education, and it’s getting wider.

Simply by being home more, many dads have gotten a fuller sense of the burdens of child care and housework that moms usually get saddled with.

It’s easier for parents whose jobs can be done remotely to juggle work and child care. This digital divide is starting to shape who chooses to have kids.