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Navy Will Allow Women
to Serve on Submarines

Female officers will be the first to join sub crews

Oct 6, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Navy is going to start allowing women to serve on submarines, with the first female officers reporting for duty in 2011. The close confinement of subs has kept co-ed crews at bay, but that's going to change, reports the Honolulu Advertiser. “I believe women should have every opportunity... More »

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gender • military • women • Navy • submarine • Navy officer

(Newser) - Women may be more “selective” daters, but that distinction could well be based not on innate personality but on social norms and the simple prospect of which gender is doing the pursuing. A new study had subjects participate in a few rounds of speed dating. When the males approached... More »

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gender • women • men • dating • romance • speed-dating • scientific study • selectivity • social mores

 South Africa: Ax 
 Lying Semenya Official 

His coverup hurt runner, says sports minister

Sep 20, 09 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - South African government officials are calling for the firing of an athletic director who admitted lying about gender tests before Caster Semenya entered her controversial World Championship race last month. "His lies were to Ms. Semenya's detriment," said a statement from the nation's sports minister, reports the BBC.... More »

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gender • sports • athletics • World Championships • Caster Semenya • Leonard Chuene • intersex • gender tests

Guys, You Lie
a Lot More
Than Women

Men tell 6 fibs a day, study finds, and here are the most common...

Sep 14, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Men aren’t nearly as good at telling the truth as the fairer sex, according to a new poll from Fox, conducted to promote its Lie To Me DVDs. Men lie six times a day according to the study, twice as much as women. Just for kicks, here are the... More »

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gender • women • men • poll • Fox • lies

Semenya Ban Would Start World War III: S. Africa

Sports minister steps up defense of racing champ

Sep 11, 09 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa’s sports minister threatened “the third world war” if Caster Semenya is barred from competing in women’s sporting events because of the results of a sex test, the BBC reports. Such a decision “would be totally unfair and totally unjust,” said the official. “... More »

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gender • sports • sex • South Africa • hermaphrodite • IAAF • track and field • Caster Semenya

Top-Selling US Bible Due for Translation Update in 2011

Translators promise to revisit TNIV's gender-neutral revisions

Sep 1, 09 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New International Version of the Bible will get an update in 2011 as scholars adapt translations to contemporary English usage, USA Today reports. The top-selling Bible translation in North America has not been updated for 25 years, with a proposed 1997 edition scuttled after provoking a contentious debate among... More »

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gender • Christianity • study • religion • gender politics • translation • Bible • controversy • New International Version • T-NIV

(Newser) - World champion sprinter Caster Semenya received a heroine's welcome today in Johannesburg, where thousands of South Africans waved signs reading "Our first lady of sport" and "100% female woman." The 18-year-old runner, caught up in suspicions about her gender, had a huge smile as spectators sang and... More »

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gender • South Africa • athlete • athletics • runner • Johannesburg • Caster Semenya

(Newser) - Pre-race World Championship blood tests on super South African runner Caster Semenya revealed testosterone levels three times typical female rates, a source tells the Telegraph. The results of the tests, carried out in South Africa, contributed to a decision by sports officials to call for "gender verification" tests on... More »

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gender • Berlin • South Africa • testosterone • anabolic steroids • East Germany • World Championships • blood tests • gold medal • gold medalist • gender confusion • women athletes • Caster Semenya • gender test

OPINION

 Women, 
 Time to 
 Compete 
 Against 
 the Men 

Eliminating divisions will solve gender identity issues in sports

Aug 23, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Female athletes will always be inherently inferior to their male counterparts unless they can directly prove their mettle against them, Dominic Lawson writes in a provocative column for the Times of London. His solution: “Let there be no male or female athletics championships. Instead, let men and women—and... More »

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gender • sports • women • men • athletics • Olympics • gender confusion • Caster Semenya

Semenya Is a Girl: S. African Birth Certificate

Track star feels 'humiliated' over
gender controversy

Aug 21, 09 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mother of South African track and field star Caster Semenya has produced a birth certificate showing the runner is female, the BBC reports. "I have no doubt about what I see. It's a girl," said Dorcus Semenya despite calls that Caster take a gender test. Caster fell... More »

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gender • South Africa • racing • track and field • gender confusion • Caster Semenya

OPINION

 Is She a Man? 
 Is Phelps a Fish? 


Aug 21, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's wrong to be subjecting South African sprinter Caster Semenya to "a public slaying," writes Antonia Senior, who says that debating her gender has no more credibility than asking if "Michael Phelps is really a fish." For the Times of London columnist, sports are now "... More »

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gender • Michael Phelps • genetics • genetic testing • athletics • IAAF • genetic abnormalities • Caster Semenya

UPDATED

 S. African 
 Track Star 
 Told to Take 
 Gender Test 

Gender confusion has followed Semenya's meteoric success

Aug 19, 09 1:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - The International Association of Athletics Federations has asked South African track star Caster Semenya to undergo gender testing, the BBC reports. The 18-year-old Semenya won the 800-meter final today at the World Championships in Berlin, just weeks after becoming African junior champion by smashing the South African record. More »

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gender • race • IAAF • gender confusion • rumors • Jay-ZTV • Caster Semenya

Girls Bond,
Boys Compete:
Brain Study

Scans confirm gender split on one-on-one interaction

Jul 17, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ever wonder why girls are so fixated on swapping friendship bracelets? They may just be wired that way, according to a new study. Using MRIs to look inside tweens' and teens' brains, researchers found that one-on-one interactions got girls’ synapses firing, Time reports. Boys focused less on other individuals than... More »

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gender • study • psychology • neuroscience • girls • fMRI • teenager • tween • boys

glossies

 Why Ruth Is Our Punching Bag 

She's the top target for Madoff attacks—thanks in part to gender, bad PR

Jul 6, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ruth Madoff “has become the primary punching bag for the media and the victims” of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, “maligned more than any other Wall Street criminal’s wife in memory,” Sheelah Kolhatkar writes in New York—but are the attacks fair? We don’t know... More »

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gender • sexism • public relations • Ponzi scheme • gender bias • Bernard Madoff • Ruth Madoff • women's issues

(Newser) - Many Asian American parents' strong bias for sons is beginning to emerge in US birth statistics, reports the New York Times.  Chinese, Korean and Indian immigrant families are more likely to abort female embryos and use in-vitro fertilization to have a treasured boy, particularly after the first or second... More »

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gender • abortion • parenting • in vitro fertilization • girls • Koreans • gender gap • gender bias • Census data • Chinese Americans • Asian immigrants • Indians • sex selection • boys

Chastity Bono Will Change
Sex to Male

Sonny and Cher's child began process just
after 40th birthday

Jun 11, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chastity Bono—the 40-year-old activist-artist child of Sonny and Cher—is in the early stages of changing his gender from female to male. “It is Chaz’s hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his ‘... More »

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entertainment • gender • Cher • sex change • gay • Chastity Bono • Sonny Bono

(Newser) - Pregnant Man is no one-baby wonder. Thomas Beatie gave birth to his second child this morning, reports ABC News. Beatie, who was born a woman but is now legally a man, catapulted to fame last year when images of his pregnant belly surfaced. Though he's had some surgery toward his... More »

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gender • baby • sex change • Thomas Beatie • pregnant man • gender confusion

(Newser) - A new study shows that parents with daughters are more likely to align themselves with left-wing parties, FiveThirtyEight.com reports. Building on earlier research that showed that parents of daughters leaned left on gender issues, sociologists surveyed a nationally representative random sampling of men and women, mostly from Great Britain.... More »

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gender • conservative • gender politics • liberal • daughter • party identification

 Male Suicide Tracked 
 to Childhood 

Female suicides don't reveal problems until after puberty

Apr 7, 09 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suicidal men are more likely to have had troubled childhoods than their female counterparts, Reuters reports. A new study found that 78% of male subjects who tried to kill themselves by age 24 had serious behavioral problems at age 8, whereas suicidal females usually developed emotional problems after puberty. The... More »

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gender • suicide • male • anti social behavior • childhood • suicide attempt

A Rose by Any Other Name Might Smell
... Manly?

Language influences perception, study finds

Apr 6, 09 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Think of the Golden Gate Bridge. Would you describe it as fragile, elegant, and slender? Or strong, dangerous, and sturdy? When they pictured a bridge, a group of German speakers offered the first group of words, while Spanish speakers offered the second, NPR reports. The difference, believes the psychologist behind... More »

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gender • study • psychology • language • German • Spanish

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