The Gender Binary (Omnivore)

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a new collection of links looking at the gender binary (and Facebook's "antagonistic relationship to gender), the gender gap in pay, and variations on gender differences and gender essentialism.

The Gender Binary

May 19 2014
3:00PM

• Janell L. Blazovich (St. Thomas), Kirsten A. Cook (Texas Tech), and Murphy Smith (Murray State): Do Ethical Firms Bridge the Gender Gap in CEO Compensation? 
• Yinlong Zhang (UTSA), Lawrence Feick (Pittsburgh), and Vikas Mittal (Rice): How Males and Females Differ in Their Likelihood of Transmitting Negative Word of Mouth. 
• Marcus Dittrich (CUT): Gender Differences in Strategic Reasoning. 
• Catherine Ruth Pakaluk and Joseph Burke (Ave Maria): The New Battle of the Sexes: A 2 X 2 Model of Female Alienation. 
• Rena Bivens (Carleton): The Gender Binary Will Not Be Deprogrammed: Facebook's Antagonistic Relationship to Gender. 
• Aya Gruber (Colorado): Neofeminism. 
• Zachary A. Kramer (ASU): The New Sex Discrimination. 
• Henriette Prast (Tilburg), Mariacristina Rossi (Turin), Costanza Torricelli (UNIMORE), and Cristina Druta (Maastricht): Do Women Prefer Pink? The Effect of a Gender Stereotypical Stock Portfolio on Investing Decisions. 
• Marcia Angell reviews The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World by Alison Wolf. 
• Gender and neoliberalism: Christina Scharff on exploring the exclusions and contours of neoliberal subjectivities. 
• Sex, culture and justice: Clare Chambers interviewed by Richard Marshall. 
• The confidence gap: Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men — and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence; Katty Kay and Claire Shipman on why and what to do about it. 
• Allison Kopicki on women and the “I don’t know” problem. 
• Charts of the day, female risk-aversion edition. 
• Girls’ ascendance in academic settings may portend a shift in the relative pay of men and women — but a change in social norms is needed, too.