Prehistoric people recognized the value in hunting large, dangerous animals as important for survival. The strongest, fastest members — typically men — were therefore seen as valuable, which may be ...

Ancient DNA from Stone Age burials in Turkey has finally put to rest a decades-long debate about whether the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society. The research finally ...

We tend to think of nature as being both brutal and patriarchal. Animals struggle to survive and mate, and we assume that means that males will dominate. But some non-human species actually have ...

Despite her history of progressive activism, including campaigning for Bernie Sanders and getting arrested for protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, Shailene Woodley didn't previously identify as a ...

In a shocking turn of events, a binary societal structure based on the stereotypical attributes of one gender isn’t working out for everyone. Patriarchy, i.e. the current power structure that most of ...

Does matriarchy exist? Peggy Reeves Sanday says yes. For two decades, Ms. Sanday, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been studying gender in West Sumatra, Indonesia. In ...

New York Times Coverage Avoids the Third Rails of Sex Trafficking Audio By Carbonatix American women face an increasingly tough marriage market, Kate Bolick writes in her recent article in The ...

Why are modern men such layabouts? It’s simple. When the family declines, men decline. A couple of years ago Rod Dreher wrote a column about this phenomenon. You can read it here. Quoting various ...