Some men are excluded from the sexual sphere for politically suspect reasons – including, perhaps, some of the men driven to vent their despair on anonymous forums – but the moment their unhappiness is transmuted into a rage at the women ‘denying’ them sex, rather than at the systems that shape desire (their own and others’), they have crossed a line into something morally ugly and confused. By Amia Srinivasan.

How can it be that girls consistently outperform boys in schools, yet they earn less and occupy fewer leadership roles as adults? New research sheds light on this phenomenon

A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders and advocates for diversity and equity 

Cookbooks can be a delight even just to look through - all of those amazing pictures of delicious possibilities that might end up in your mouth one day... However, not all of the recipe books are like that - some really need to reconsider their presentation. That is what Twitter user Mike Rugnetta noticed recently after seeing way too many book covers of instant pot cookbooks. By Agne.

Formula 1 grid girls have been told to leave motor sports, but they're making one last stand on social media. Just a few days after the Professional Darts Corporation banned its walk-on girls, Formula 1 followed the same path by banning the use of promo models, commonly called grid girls, commencing with the start of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season.

When presenters on a state-run channel ridiculed Anastasia for her feminist views live on the country’s most popular dating show, the masses might have been expected to rally to her side. After all, she was just 12 years old. Instead, Russian internet commenters not only took the presenter’s side, they mercilessly hurled insults at the girl.

Following the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Playboy takes a look at why a woman has yet to be hired to direct a film for the sci-fi franchise.

‘The Mists of Avalon’ changed my life—how do I reconcile that with what I now know about its author? By Jessica Jernigan.

What Lorin Stein’s resignation from The Paris Review over sexual misconduct reveals about the true index of male power. By Wesley Yang.

If we think Hollywood is tough, try reckoning with Catholic and evangelical theologies that insist that God has ordered the universe so that men are always destined to be the leaders and authorities. By Jamie Manson.

The #MeToo moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men. By Claire Berlinksi.

Laura Kipnis reviews “Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back” by Gretchen Carlson.

David Plante's unhagiographic portraits of three literary women. By Kate Bolick.

In the current moment, we risk reverting to a more sexually restrictive era—one that denied agency to women. By Masha Gessen.

Internet critics think Justice League’s costumes are sexier because they were designed by a man. By Kaitlyn Frey.

To some, assessing an artist’s work in light of his biography is blasphemous. But it’s time to do away with the idea that they’re separate. By Amanda Hess.

As stories about abuse, assault, and complicity come flooding out, how do we think about the culprits in our lives? Including, sometimes, ourselves. By Rebecca Traister.

Periods happen to half the population – so why are they still treated as something to hide? Meet the activists seeing red. By Abigail Radnor.

I’m a lefty academic versed in feminist theory. Still, I rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape women. By David Graeber.

I keep having the same conversation over and over. That thing where someone undermines your perception of reality, and says you’re crazy, or denies that something is happening that is in fact happening? By Nora Samaran. (June 28, 2016)