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"Students who get along well with their teachers and with each other are almost always successful, but, overall, less than half the students do." Causation fallacy here; is the connection that getting along well with people at school leads to students doing better? Or that doing well in school leads to getting along with peers and teachers? Or both? Or neither?

"[Women] are as exposed to sexist ideas as men are and often held responsible for enforcing them. Denigrating other women can be a blood sport."

"contrary to stereotypes, baby boys start off more fretful and exhibit more signs of stress and neediness than girls do. Parents will ignore fear and anxiety in boys but cultivate them in girls."

"Girls who participate in team sports have higher self-esteem, are more resistant to rigid gender norms, are more ambitious politically and professionally, and are more inclined to be leaders."

“Your anger and assertiveness will make some people unhappy, uncomfortable, sensitive, cautious. They will resent you, your thoughts, your words.”

“a simple, unapologetic, declarative NO is not a word that girls and women are taught to embrace.”

"Houston's Rice University professor of political science Valerie Hudson conducted more than ten years' worth of research definitively showing that the greatest predictor of a nation's peacefulness and security is the way that girls are treated in their own homes."

"Studies show that women who display or express anger in deliberative groups, for example, are taken less seriously than the men around them are."

"Women's anger over Trump's election has been the single greatest propellant of women's multifocus activism. An April 2017 poll of just under 30,000 people showed that 86% of those who had taken steps to protest his administration and its policies were women."

"since the mid-2000s, Republican women have made almost no gains as elected officials and continue to lose ground as elected representatives."

"In 2017, political scientists Carly Wayne, Nicholas Valentino, and Marzia Oceno found that sexism predicted Trump support more than economics, a person's party affiliation, political ideology, or racial attitudes."

"Women in communities with greater gender equality, for example, have superior cognitive skills, while men in gender-unequal communities underperform in social sensitivity." I'd be curious to see how men's cognition and women's social sensitivity fared in gender-unequal communities.

"In 2017, for example, a Minitel study found that 61% of British women are very happy being single, compared with 40% of British men. Women cite onerous demands of domestic and emotional labor as the reasons why they would rather not be in relationships. Many men are brought up to expect this labor."

"On average, people are angered by the same things: unfairness, perceptions of injustice, and threats to safety, family, and status. But men get angrier when challenged by women than they do by other men -- in other words, when their "natural" higher status is questioned."

"Almost one in four women, 23%, said they were "treated as if they were not competent," compared with 6% of men." People who claim that sexism doesn't exist - do you just think that it's fair women get treated that way? Do you think women just ARE less competent than men?

"Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton fifty-one times during the first presidential debate in 2016... Trump talked over or interrupted Clinton three times as frequently as she interrupted him."

"During the past 20 years, as other countries have made strides toward women's political efficacy, the United States went form being 52nd in the world for women's representation to 104th."

"Women journalists on Twitter record three times as many abusive comments as male counterparts"

"If [men] feel that everything they do will reflect on other men and be misrepresented and misunderstood, take a seat. YOU ARE NOW HONORARY WOMEN."

"40% of women reporting sexual harassment at work to the EEOC said that their employers retaliated after they came forward."

"Refusing to meet, travel, or eat with an unaccompanied woman... is not a solution. Rather, it is a misguided reinstitution of sex segregation based on rape myths, the most obvious of which are that men are fools who can't control themselves and that women readily lie about rape."

"If you are a man sitting in a room where there are no or few women or people of color, your first question should be whether you want to be complicit in the perpetuation of these problems."

"when women make up roughly 17% of a crowd scene (an eerie coincidence with leadership percentages) viewers perceive a fifty-fifty gender balance. There is an auditory corollary to this: when women speak 30% of the time in mixed-gender conversations, listeners think they dominate."

"An overall lack of gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in storytelling manifests itself in subtle ways: substantively more male sources, more male op-eds, more male bylines, and even more male photographic subjects... They subtly train us to overlook when people and their perspectives are missing."

"Women make up the majority of journalism students, but 62% of US newsroom staff are men, 88% of whom are white. Women make up fewer than 27% of senior media management positions and only 1/3 of newsroom managers... These numbers have remained relatively static for two decades."

"Lower-status and less talented male gamers (or, as one journalist put it, "literally losers") showed the most vitriolic hostility toward women who were better players and "winning." These players defer to more skilled men, but they viciously attack women."

"The US House of Representatives had no bathroom near the Speaker's Lobby for women legislators until 2011. Prior to that, the nearest ladies' room was so far away that the time it took women to hasten to the bathroom and back exceeded session break times. A congresswoman risked losing her vote if she didn't make it back to the chamber in time." WHAT.

(continued) "This is a simple but telling example of the ways children learn to think that masculine = normal; male = standard; boys = human; and girls = have to pay."