CCF Briefing
- Boys Don’t Read Enough
- The Not-So-Great Reason Divorce Rates Are Declining
- Not All Women Have a Clear Answer for How Sexual Assault Affected Them. That Doesn’t Mean It Had No Effect.
- Christine Blasey Ford and the good-girl syndrome
- Left Behind When a Colleague Goes on Leave
- Why Humans Are Bad At Spotting Lies
- At Elite Colleges, Racial Diversity Requires Affirmative Action
- In the Nursing Home, Empty Beds and Quiet Halls
- The ‘Tight Rope’ of Testifying While Female
- What Men Should Know About #MeToo: It’s About Them
- Do Republican Women Support Kavanaugh?
- Rebecca Traister on Why Women Are Angry: It’s Not Just Kavanaugh
- Boys Don’t Read Enough
- Why the Ivy League Needs to Admit More Students
- Through the Eyes of Deaf Children
- A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
- The Dad-Joke Doctrine
- People Are Confused About the Usefulness of Buying Fancy Things
- Fury Is a Political Weapon. And Women Need to Wield It.
- We Can’t Just Let Boys Be Boys
- An Age Divided by Sex
- The Feminists and the Frat House
- Kavanaugh Borrows From Trump’s Playbook on White Male Anger
- Kavanaugh Battle Shows the Power, and the Limits, of #MeToo Movement
- Why I Love Reality Television
- Believability Is the Road to National Ruin
- How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations
- Women Have a Message for Washington
- Japan’s Mothers Go Back to Work, but Find the Opportunities Lacking
- A Prostitute Was Killed in France. Is a New Law Partly to Blame?
- The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade
- An ‘Ancestral Memory’ Inscribed in Skin
- Texas Boy Speaks Clearly for First Time After Dentist Discovered He Was Tongue-Tied
- Do Migrant Teenagers Have Abortion Rights? Two Volatile Issues Collide in Court
- Housing Market Slows, as Rising Prices Outpace Wages
- Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory
- Make My Sexual Assault Count
- Schools Are Tackling ‘Bro’ Culture. The Kavanaugh Case Shows Why That’s Hard to Do.
- Damaging a Man’s Good Name Versus Damaging a Woman’s Life
- Syphilis Rises Sharply Among Newborns
- The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Was A Clash Of Gender Politics
- Novels That Tackle Sexual Assault
- France’s New Law Against Sexist Catcalls Gets Its First Conviction
- At the Center of the Kavanaugh Accusations: Heavy Drinking
- Many teens drink. Rich ones like Kavanaugh are more likely to abuse alcohol.
- Boys Don’t Read Enough
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-girls-are-better-reading-boys/571429/
Girls read more than boys in just about every developed country, and it’s a big reason they have better educational outcomes.
- The Not-So-Great Reason Divorce Rates Are Declining
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/millennials-divorce-baby-boomers/571282/
What’s changed isn’t marriage, but the types of people who are likeliest to get married.
- Not All Women Have a Clear Answer for How Sexual Assault Affected Them. That Doesn’t Mean It Had No Effect.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/health/dr-ford-sexual-assault.html
The idea that one needs to articulate the personal effects of sexual assault as clearly as Christine Blasey Ford keeps many victims from reporting what happened to them.
- Christine Blasey Ford and the good-girl syndrome
Women are punished for seeming angry, while men are rewarded. The result is what we saw on Thursday.
- Left Behind When a Colleague Goes on Leave
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/maternity-paternity-leave-coworkers.html
Discussion of maternity and paternity leave policies typically focuses on parents and employers. But what about the co-workers who have to take on extra duties?
- Why Humans Are Bad At Spotting Lies
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-humans-are-bad-at-spotting-lies/
- At Elite Colleges, Racial Diversity Requires Affirmative Action
Getting more low-income students into elite colleges is an important goal. But most poor applicants are white, so race-based criteria are needed.
- In the Nursing Home, Empty Beds and Quiet Halls
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/health/nursing-homes-occupancy.html
Fewer patients are winding up in nursing homes, and hundreds of the facilities are closing each year.
- The ‘Tight Rope’ of Testifying While Female
Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony was a stark reminder of the gender dynamics, and mental gymnastics, required of women who speak up.
- What Men Should Know About #MeToo: It’s About Them
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/me-too-men.html
Women “are laying themselves bare to awaken us, so we can do better,” said Wade Davis, a former N.F.L. player.
- Do Republican Women Support Kavanaugh?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/do-republican-women-support-kavanaugh/
Earlier this week, a Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted before Thursday’s hearing reported an 18-point drop in net approval among Republican women.
- Rebecca Traister on Why Women Are Angry: It’s Not Just Kavanaugh
Ms. Traister‘s writing has placed her at the center of the feminist conversation for years. Her new book on women’s rage should keep her there.
- Boys Don’t Read Enough
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-girls-are-better-reading-boys/571429/
Girls read more than boys in just about every developed country, and it’s a big reason they have better educational outcomes.
- Why the Ivy League Needs to Admit More Students
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/ivy-league-acceptance-rates-so-low/571678/
Harvard and Yale’s intense selectivity is one reason why their affirmative action policies have come under attack. But these colleges could also easily choose to take in more students.
- Through the Eyes of Deaf Children
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571291/deaf-children-school
A day in the life of a third-grade classroom at the California School for the Deaf.
- A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/what-is-food-science/571105/
The fall of a prominent behavioral scientist tells of a system where research is judged not on merit, but on the attention it gets.
- The Dad-Joke Doctrine
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/deconstructing-the-dad-joke/571174
These jokes tend to inspire such strong reactions because of their particular kind of wordplay, and that dad jokes are undergoing a renaissance says a lot about the state of modern fatherhood.
- People Are Confused About the Usefulness of Buying Fancy Things
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/buying-luxury-goods-value/571525
Why luxury goods don’t impress, but repel
- Fury Is a Political Weapon. And Women Need to Wield It.
What the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh showed us about who gets to be angry in public.
- We Can’t Just Let Boys Be Boys
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/sex-education-ethics-assault-boys.html
Locker rooms are not the place to learn about sexual ethics. Neither is the Internet.
- An Age Divided by Sex
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/kavanaugh-feminism-conservatism.html
The Kavanaugh nightmare shows how the competing moralisms of conservatism and feminism are tearing us apart.
- The Feminists and the Frat House
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/letters/patriarchy.html
A discussion of male privilege in response to “The Patriarchy Will Always Have Its Revenge.”
- Kavanaugh Borrows From Trump’s Playbook on White Male Anger
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-trump-men.html
For many conservatives, especially white men, angry responses Thursday by Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and Senator Lindsey Graham represented a welcome rebuke to a hostile liberal order.
- Kavanaugh Battle Shows the Power, and the Limits, of #MeToo Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-blasey-metoo-supreme-court.html
Christine Blasey Ford’s emergence shows how pivotal the movement has become, and how its dynamics have threaded their way into American life.
- Why I Love Reality Television
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/opinion/sunday/love-hip-hop-reality-television.html
Shows like “Love & Hip Hop” offer nuanced portrayals of women of color. They’re not a guilty pleasure.
- Believability Is the Road to National Ruin
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/opinion/kavanaugh-blasey-testimony-believe.html
Thursday’s hearings should not prevent Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
- How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/kavanauagh-fbi-background-check.html
The bureau, in a relatively limited inquiry, will rely on witnesses to voluntarily answer questions or hand over documents.
- Women Have a Message for Washington
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/opinion/sunday/women-brett-kavanaugh-protests.html
In the year of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearing set off outrage in the nation’s capital.
- Japan’s Mothers Go Back to Work, but Find the Opportunities Lacking
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/japan-work-jobs-women.html
Employment data shows a big increase in mothers in the Japanese work force. Those figures mask some big problems with the quality of jobs available to working mothers.
- A Prostitute Was Killed in France. Is a New Law Partly to Blame?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/world/europe/france-prostitution-violence.html
French lawmakers passed a measure two years ago they said would make life safer for prostitutes. Some say it has put them in a lot more danger.
- The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/upshot/mini-recession-2016-little-known-big-impact.html
A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas can explain a lot of things.
- An ‘Ancestral Memory’ Inscribed in Skin
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/style/alaska-native-women-tattoos.html
In Alaska and other areas of the circumpolar north, women have been working in the last decade to revitalize a tattooing tradition.
- Texas Boy Speaks Clearly for First Time After Dentist Discovered He Was Tongue-Tied
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/tongue-tied-boy-speaks.html
Mason Motz’s parents believed his speech issues were caused by a brain aneurysm he suffered at 10 days old. It turned out he couldn’t move his tongue correctly.
- Do Migrant Teenagers Have Abortion Rights? Two Volatile Issues Collide in Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/court-abortion-immigrants.html
The Trump administration says it has broad authority to block abortions for young undocumented immigrants in federal custody, because they can return to their home countries at any time.
- Housing Market Slows, as Rising Prices Outpace Wages
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/business/economy/home-prices-housing-market-slowdown.html
Even in attractive, fast-growing cities like Denver, New York and Seattle, selling prices are rising more slowly and asking prices are being slashed.
- Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/brett-kavanaugh-drinking-blackouts.html
It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.
- Make My Sexual Assault Count
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/sexual-assault-women-kavanaugh.html
What America owes women right now.
- Schools Are Tackling ‘Bro’ Culture. The Kavanaugh Case Shows Why That’s Hard to Do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/kavanaugh-fraternities-prep-school.html
It is a culture prized by employers from Wall Street to Silicon Valley and romanticized by Hollywood. It is also a crucible for leadership.
- Damaging a Man’s Good Name Versus Damaging a Woman’s Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/dr-ford-brett-kavanaugh.html
What often seems an afterthought is that for millions of women, and men, who have endured sexual violence, the toll is life-altering. It’s trauma that doesn’t have a term limit.
- Syphilis Rises Sharply Among Newborns
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/science/congenital-syphilis-infants.html
Along with an increase in adult infections, the rate of infants born with the disease has reached a 20-year high.
- The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Was A Clash Of Gender Politics
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ford-kavanaugh-hearing-was-a-clash-of-gender-politics/
- Novels That Tackle Sexual Assault
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/books/novels-that-tackle-sexual-assault.html
From “Lolita” to “The Luckiest Girl Alive.”
- France’s New Law Against Sexist Catcalls Gets Its First Conviction
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/europe/france-sexual-harassment-law.html
A man was fined for lewd, insulting comments to a woman aboard a bus. He was also jailed, for slapping her behind and hitting the bus driver.
- At the Center of the Kavanaugh Accusations: Heavy Drinking
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kavanaugh-drinking-yale-high-school.html
Uniting the complaints of sexual impropriety that have threatened to upend Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation is a theme of binge drinking.
- Many teens drink. Rich ones like Kavanaugh are more likely to abuse alcohol.
Affluence is a risk factor for dangerous behavior