If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

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.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

People with a college education are now less likely to divorce than they were a few decades ago, and they're more likely to describe their marriages as happy. That finding really surprised me. It appears that those with a higher education have been more able to dismantle strict traditional roles and, in doing so, gain more freedom. I call it a seesaw marriage, one in which both the man and the woman take turns being the breadwinner, making it possible for each of them to experience career advancements or breaks at different times.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.