Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

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

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

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.

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

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