A new issue of Scholar & Feminist Online is now out, on valuing domestic work. Work-from-home scams target mothers searching for the flexibility that traditional employers don't provide. Do employers discriminate by gender in female-dominated occupations? What if women ran Wall Street? An article on testosterone and risk. More Nancy Pelosis, Please: Why the world needs more female lawmakers — and why quota systems won't necessarily get us there. From The Economist, an article on the worldwide war on baby girls; killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared and the number is rising; distorted sex ratios in India: An article on struggling to cope with a dearth of brides; and a review of Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran. A review of Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women by Marnia Lazreg. In 1970, 46 women filed a landmark gender-discrimination case; their employer was Newsweek — forty years later, their contemporary counterparts question how much has actually changed; who needs feminism when we've already won the war? Oh wait — we haven't; and my name is Jesse but I am not a boy: Inside a family's failed experiment with gender neutrality. With biological urges around wanting babies, what’s a girl to do when her actions appear to be driven by her hormones? Hilary Mantel suggests teen motherhood is not all bad, since society is structured round men's development — it may be better for women to have children earlier. From TLS, a review essay on the new sexism, lost feminist dreams, the false ideals of marriage — and Barbie dolls. The myth of mean girls: Despite sensationalized news stories, statistical evidence suggests that young women are growing less violent not more.
