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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Study Finds Women Professors Get More Grief from Students
By Tracy Thomas
Female Professors Get More Grief From Students, Study FindsResearch from Eastern Washington University has found that women working in education are more often requested to give extensions, boost grades and be…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Pew Research Survey Finds People Sense Significant Gender Differences
By Tracy Thomas
Pew Research Report, On Gender Differences: No Consensus on Nature v. Nurture A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities of Americans say men and women are basically different…
The Right Coast
Why the World is Giving Up on Genders | Acumen | OZY
It s been more than 30 years since Prince first sang, I m not a woman / I m not a man / I am something that you ll never…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Considering Gender Performitivity in Anti-Discrimination Law
By Tracy Thomas
Ido Katri (Toronto), Transgender Intrasectionality: Rethinking Anti-Discrimination Law and Litigation, U. Penn. J. Law & Social Change 20.1This article will puts a gender variant perspective on anti-discrimination law and litigation. It…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The True Man and His Gun: A Masculinities Theory of the Second Amendment
By Tracy Thomas
C.D. Christensen, The "True Man" and His Gun: On the Masculine Mystique of Second Amendment Jurisprudence, 23 William & Mary J. Women & Law (2017)The Supreme Court’s recent Second Amendment jurisprudence…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Relationship Status Discrimination Against Women in Academic Hiring
By Tracy Thomas
Lauren Rivera, When Two Bodies are (Not) a Problem: Gender and Relationship Status Discrimination in Academic Hiring, Amer. Soc. Rev. (Oct. 25, 2017)Junior faculty search committees serve as gatekeepers to…
The Right Coast
Gender-neutral society isn’t real – Washington Times
The specific statement, which apparently caused such angst was reportedly made on the radio broadcast, Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, where I said, Why are we being silent in the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases”
Main October 29, 2017"A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases"The title of this post is the title of this notable new empirical paper…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New SSRN Series for Women and Gender
By Tracy Thomas
Welcome to WGSRN: Women's & Gender StudiesSSRN is pleased to announce WGSRN, our new Women’s & Gender Studies Research Network, where researchers in women’s and gender studies and related interdisciplinary…
The Right Coast
It s not women who get pregnant it s people | News | The Times & The Sunday Times
The government has said the term pregnant woman should not be used in a UN treaty because it excludes transgender people. Feminists reacted with outrage to what they said was…