Words matter. These are the best Hanna Rosin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you… This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
Pop culture is like our subconscious.
Because women have been marginalised, they’re more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don’t think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
Women don’t give up things. They don’t give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don’t give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
Workplaces still operate like it’s 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men… don’t band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can’t resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Maybe there’s something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates – and the conservative movement generally – is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I’ve done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can’t step up and provide.
Green jobs – those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting ‘big ideas’ pieces.
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You’d think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you’d use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves – indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
For women in, say, Alabama, ‘feminism’ is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don’t think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations – not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
Feminism was about making women’s lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we’re always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
