Becky Blab

[youtube EQb9vDLe4IU&NR] This post is dedicated in gratitude to all of the wonderful women in my life. I feel so lucky to have known so many strong, intelligent, talented and truly beautiful women. Happy women’s day to you all! I know it’s not Mother’s Day, but I feel the urge to thank my mom who [...]

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I have spent the past several years rebelling against housework in the name of gender equality (see another post I wrote long ago, Fearing the life of a housewife). But while I thought it was for a higher cause, was my liberation simply an excuse for laziness and messiness? Not only was untidiness both cause and [...]

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For my dissertation at LSE, I wrote about a UNICEF project for girl’s education and questioned its assumption that education was automatically empowering. A contact of mine currently at the LSE, Layla, has posted some very interesting research–conducted by the LSE, no less–that again brings these questions to my mind:  Cleverest women are the heaviest [...]

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Some new research featured in the NYT on the gender gap contends counterintuitively that more traditional societies have smaller gender differences than modern ones. For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the variation is going [...]

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The TOI has an interesting response to Sarah Palin’s nomination: the examination of political tokenism of women in India. “A patriarchal ethos dominates both the societies, American and Indian, but they operate in different ways. In India, despite the patriarchal ethos, powerful women leaders have emerged,” says political scientist Imtiaz Ahmed. The most famous examples [...]

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