Stories by Caryl Rivers
Caryl Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University and co-author, with Dr. Rosalind Barnett of Brandeis, of Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children and Our Jobs (Basic).
The veil over the Bush administration's war on women's reproductive health was pulled back recently by the president's own former surgeon general.
Posted on Jul 20, 2007
Contrary to what the media report, putting your child in day care will not make them grow up to be a criminal or Columbine-like killer.
Posted on May 12, 2007
Anthropologists who suggest early humans survived by dint of separate gender roles are grabbing headlines, displaying the media's fondness for evidence -- however dubious -- of the species being hardwired for male dominance.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
America has always welcomed and used cheap labor. But at least during the industrial economy, people hoped their kids could do better. Today, they're not so sure.
Posted on Oct 25, 2006
It's not biology, child-rearing demands, or differences in ability that explain slower female advancement in scientific and technical fields. It is discrimination, pure and simple.
Posted on Sep 28, 2006
Forbes.com is just the latest media outlet to say working women have terrible marriages. Will this myth ever die?
Posted on Sep 1, 2006
Newsweek has finally apologized for its infamous cover story that predicted single women over 40 would probably never marry. But the damage has long since been done.
Posted on Jun 15, 2006
A controversial study recently found that women are happier in their marriages when men are the bread-winners. What gives?
Posted on Mar 30, 2006
This holiday season, pink-and-blue aisles and gender-coded departments are selling the same old message.
Posted on Nov 29, 2005
The pope's mixed legacy included a consistent assault on birth control.
Posted on Apr 6, 2005
Conventional wisdom, promoted by the media, suggests that the traditional wife is back in vogue. But research shows that financial independence, education and intelligence are really what's hot.
Posted on Aug 10, 2004
As war has come to dominate the headlines of newspapers, women writers have become increasingly rare on their op-ed pages.
Posted on Apr 17, 2003
A new book adds to the gender wars by claiming girls' brains are hardwired for relationships, not math. Sigh, not that tired old nonsense again!
Posted on Jul 3, 2002
A new book about the news media's allegedly liberal bias suggests that journalism is too "pro-feminist." A review of recent reports on women proves quite the opposite.
Posted on Mar 15, 2002
