What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

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.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

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.

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.