Our survival as a species hasn't hinged on physical strength but on adaptable brains that get us out of tricky situations and on social cooperation that makes us look out for each other.

Cat Bohannon’s "Eve" walks us through the history of our long evolution, showing how sexism could have emerged as a trade-off that we no longer need.

https://open.substack.com/pub/claudinemangen834548/p/womens-bodies-evolution-and-sexism

Notice how the main protagonist is missing from "end violence against women"? Who is committing the violence? And why is he left out?

Unless we can have an honest conversation about men's violence and how we can raise boys to associate masculinity with behaviours other than anger, rage, and violence, change will be difficult.

Men's violence harms women, men and kids. The majority of those who are violent are men, which is the real problem that needs to be tackled.

https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/publications/how-to-communicate-for-change

In my latest Substack, I discuss how women carefully navigate their speech and what we can do about this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/claudinemangen834548/p/youre-trying-to-navigate-not-being

Here at https://buff.ly/4deShrE is a moving first-person account abt a tenured professor leaving academia, showing what's broken in academia, including its insistence on overwork.

I found Sarah Jaffe's "Work Won't Love You Back" (https://buff.ly/3VE2Lc9) instructional. It opened my eyes to how academia tells us to do all this extra work bc we love our work—which many of us do. Jaffe points to the real price we pay when we do all this extra work & lack the time for those who do love us back.

And why do we never see such articles about men? Are there no myth about men in business?

Chamorro-Premuzic's entertaining Ted talk, here: https://buff.ly/3xE4GFx "Why do so many incompetent men become leaders" certainly suggests otherwise.

New research, here: https://buff.ly/4bgNVxZ, illustrates how gender inequalities in work are caused by how care work for children imposes larger penalties on women than on men.

The researchers estimate that "in the United States, more than two-thirds of the overall gender earnings gap can be accounted for by the differential impacts of children on women and men."

This is how society values caring for the next generation: by punishing those who do the care work.

Parental leaves are viewed as lack of commitment to work. Men understand this view and are often reluctant to take leaves, implicitly putting the onus on their partners to step up and pay the professional cost of stepping away from professional work. My recent study https://buff.ly/3QAGHwz, illustrates this point, & is summarized here: https://buff.ly/3RF5wsy.

The solution is to shift how we think about leaves, and men role models are central in this regard.

Women in leadership roles are often criticized by others who label them as "emotional." This labelling suggests that leaders don't show emotions, thus undermining & delegitimizing women leaders.

A leader I interviewed shared, “One of the things that I’ve always been accused of, or given a reprimand for, is being emotional.”

Interestingly, man leaders don't get similar backlash when displaying emotions; instead, their emotional displays are often seen as justified.

https://buff.ly/3JNuRMv

A new study highlights that remote work exacerbates the gender pay gap.

Women in roles conducive to working from home have lower pay compared to men in similar positions. This disparity is more pronounced among older and married women.

The flexibility of remote work thus is financially costly for women, highlighting ongoing challenges in achieving pay equity. #GenderPayGap #RemoteWorkStudy

Link to study:
https://buff.ly/3woDTMY