A paper in Psychological Science in the Public Interest challenges the common (and probably counterproductive) myth that sexism pervades the STEM fields. In fact, write researchers Stephen J. Ceci, Shulamit Kahn and Wendy M. Williams, evidence from the last 20 years shows that women in scholarly science are doing fine.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


