Starting in the 1960s, feminists argued that the discipline of psychology had neglected the
study of women and gender and misrepresented women in its research and theories …

Around the globe and starting in the affluent West, women have made major, even
revolutionary, strides toward equality with men. However, while access to major social …

Empirical studies show that though there is more room for improvement, much progress has
been made toward gender equality since the second wave of feminism. Evidence also …

This article challenges the implicit assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-
role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. The authors …

The behavior of women and men varies greatly depending on situations, cultures, and
historical periods. This flexibility emerges as men and women tailor their division of labor to …

In recent years policy makers and social scientists have devoted considerable attention to
wellbeing, a concept that refers to people's capacity to live healthy, creative and fulfilling …

What causes sex differences and similarities in behavior? At the core of our account are
societal stereotypes about gender. These stereotypes, or gender role beliefs, form as people …

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new
century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to …

Building sustainable diversity in higher education isn't just the right thing to do—it is an
imperative for institutional excellence and for a pluralistic society that works. In Diversity's …

Despite rapid changes in women's educational attainment and continuous labor force
experience, convergence in the gender gap in wages slowed in the 1990s and stalled in the …