Intelligence Squared Debate: Men Are Finished

Submitted by tangs on October 2, 2011 - 11:39am
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Intelligence Squared is a program that arranges Oxford-style debates on a wide range of timely and provocative topics. For this debate, the proposition is MEN ARE FINISHED:

In a modern, post-industrial economy that seems better suited to women than men, many are wondering if men have been permanently left behind. Education and employment statistics point to a clear and growing dominance in women’s status at home and in the workplace. Are men primed for a comeback or have the old rules changed for good? (Media links after the jump.)

SCOTUSblog Online Symposium: Same-Sex Marriage

Submitted by tangs on August 15, 2011 - 11:09pm
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SCOTUSblog, an essential resource for anyone that follows the Supreme Court, is having a (blog) symposium on same-sex marriage where they'll be publishing articles by leading voices on both sides of the debate. This archive link goes to a page that will aggregate articles as they're posted.

Other than the symposium announcement (complete with list of contributors) there are already a few articles posted:

Facebook COO: Women Need to Be More Assertive

Submitted by tangs on July 5, 2011 - 11:37pm
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A New Yorker piece on Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and one of the most powerful women in business and technology, profiles her career and also outlines her perspective on women in the workplace (as well as criticisms of her view). Broadly, she thinks women get in their own way more than men get in their way, and that many problems would be solved by women being more assertive.

U.S. Households

Submitted by yamins on June 19, 2011 - 9:27am
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Cool interactive article from the NYT. You can choose who lives in the family and the article will tell you how many families with that makeup are in the US, as well as other social signifiers they have. For instance, there are 11,617 lesbian couples with a child over the age of 18.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/19/nyregion/how-many-househol...

A Baby's Secret Gender

Submitted by Anonymous on May 26, 2011 - 3:36pm
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Two Toronto parents are keeping the gender of their third child a mystery to those outside of the immediate family for now.

Read the story here:
http://www.parentdish.com/2011/05/26/genderless-baby/

Statement on Academic Freedom

Submitted by eipe on May 10, 2011 - 8:56am
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The Hastings Women’s Law Journal (HWLJ) strongly acknowledges the principle of academic freedom as an essential pillar of an academic forum. HWLJ has always embraced diverse opinions and fostered progress through open, candid discussions to stimulate innovative solutions to structural problems. Our mission would undoubtedly fail if open dialogue was threatened in an academic forum.

An Open Letter on Being a Modern Man

Submitted by tangs on May 4, 2011 - 12:12pm
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Dan Mulhern, husband of former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm and soon-to-be lecturer at Berkeley Law and the Haas School of Business, writes an open letter to his thirteen-year-old son reflecting on what it means to be a man with shifting gender roles in society. He concludes it's a good time to be a man.

via post from The Good Men Project

2 gay dads, 12 happy kids

Submitted by tangs on May 3, 2011 - 5:46pm
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An excellent features article about Steven and Roger Ham, a gay male couple in Arizona that started out by foster-adopting a kid at age 5 who was worried about his four younger siblings, who were all split up and bouncing around different foster homes. And so it goes, adopting siblings, infants, and special needs children. Their story is all the more remarkable for living in Arizona, where two men cannot be legally married, nor adopt children together, and the Governor just signed into law a bill that preferences (different-sex) married couples in adoptions, all else being equal.

Non-Forcible Rape and Other Myths: ‘The No Support for Women’s Reproductive Choices Act’: Rise of the Right (Part 5)

Submitted by Anonymous on April 22, 2011 - 9:30pm
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To the cynic, the Republican focus on controlling women’s reproductive choices also points towards the problematic relationship between religious fundamentalism in America and how it masquerades as secular law and policy. Fighting religious fundamentalism in the rest of the world is such a powerful military agenda, where women’s oppression is at the forefront of justifying the need for military action. Yet the war at home on women’s reproductive rights is being waged in the opposite direction—and the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” is just one of many examples that prove it.

Non-Forcible Rape and Other Myths: ‘The No Support for Women’s Reproductive Choices Act’: State v. Women (Part 4)

Submitted by Anonymous on April 21, 2011 - 11:09am
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Valenti also poignantly recounts in her book the case of Laura Pemberton. Pemberton was a woman who was forced to have a caesarean section, based on the fact that the rights of her foetus, which had its own lawyer appointed, undermined her own rights despite her own research into the safety of delivering the baby at home.

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