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...College in Maine and co-author of the book Packaging Girlhood. The not-so-subtle pressures of this marketing can damage self-esteem and feed worries about body image and appearance later in life, the sisters say. They also link it to a celebrity-obsessed culture that undermines adult women by glorifying glamour figures like Paris Hilton while neglecting those women engaged in more serious pursuits. (See the worst business deals...
...Oddly, this is happening as opportunities for women have expanded dramatically in the Western world. Brown says the two trends may be linked. The blurring of traditional gender roles as women succeed in the workplace and girls outperform boys in school has created an anxiety that advertisers have capitalized on, she argues. "Those stereotypes get pronounced at a time when girls and boys alike are really questioning, and living their lives in much more complicated ways," she says...
...plan to call more boycotts, they also want to offer positive messages. They've launched a Pinkstinks seal of approval for retailers that aren't bogged down in the girly swamp. And a sister website, www.cooltobe.me, seeks kids' views on who their role models should be and highlights adult women's achievements in an effort to show girls the opportunities that are open to them. Emma Moore says she's growing more determined as she sees her 7-year-old beginning to worry about her looks and weight. "I'm definitely motivated by not wanting to catch her looking...
Drawn from an applicant pool that was 50.9 percent male, the admitted class is 52.4 percent male. A majority of last year’s admittees were male as well, but that entering class ultimately contained more women than men, since more women chose to accept the offer of admission...
...Caucasus, parts of which have been ruled from Moscow in one way or another for two centuries. That history of subjugation, along with the desperate poverty afflicting most of the region, helps explain the apparent ease with which insurgents have been able to recruit new fighters, both men and women. As a result, violent incidents in the North Caucasus jumped from 281 in the summer of 2008 to 470 a year later, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. (See "The Man Behind Russia's Deadly Train Blast...