gender roles

Evolutionary psychologists specialize in coming up with primal, survival-related explanations for "The Way Men and Women Are." While some of their scenarios are thought-provoking, a closer look suggests some of their interpretations make them little more than Professional Guessers.

Should a 4-year-old girl bombarded with princess mania watch the royal wedding? Two of our writers debate. 

It's natural to feel good about buying a product from a company that is contributing money to a good cause like breast cancer prevention. But what are we buying into? And is it part of the problem?

Our culture struggles with the notion of how gender ought to manifest -- that there are fixed recognizable differences in the look and function of sex organs, presence of hormones and type of chromosomes that generate two distinct and bounded categories: male and female. And therefore man and woman. But actually, there aren’t.

Tomorrow, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, my three-year-old son will dress as Queen Esther, the star of this show. But reactions to his choice show just how little room boys have for exploring different gender roles.