Gender Roles

Books

  • Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
  • Becoming
  • The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
  • Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster–And Overcoming OurFear of Slowing Down
  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
  • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
  • Men Explain Things to Me
  • The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts
  • I’m Just a Person
  • Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
  • Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
  • My Life on the Road
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
  • How to Be an Antiracist
  • So You Want to Talk About Race
  • In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
  • This Is My America
  • Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You
  • The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts
  • Laughing at My Nightmare
  • Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  • The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
  • Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
  • The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  • Experts

  • Susan Rice
  • Michelle Obama
  • Brenรฉ Brown
  • Sarah Silverman
  • Kimberlรฉ Williams Crenshaw
  • Isabel Wilkerson
  • Shalini Kantayya
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Greta Thunberg
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Kamala Harris
  • Michelle Alexander
  • Trevor Noah
  • Alie Ward
  • Cara Santa Maria
  • Ijeoma Oluo
  • Diane Guerrero
  • Jenara Nerenberg
  • Bronnie Ware
  • Clare Patey
  • Gene Demby
  • Shereen Marisol Meraji
  • Dr. Carol Tavris
  • Shane Burcaw
  • Susan Ware
  • bell hooks
  • Hannah Fry
  • Tig Notaro
  • William Still
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Aminatou Sow
  • Ann Friedman
  • Mazie Hirono
  • Penn Jillette
  • James Randi
  • Cynthia Lowen
  • Julia Galef
  • Julie Sondra Decker
  • Stephanie Brown
  • Dr. Laurie Santos
  • Shelly Johnson
  • Cristen Conger
  • Caroline Ervin
  • Madeline K. Sofia
  • Sabrina E. Dent, DMin
  • Emily Kwong
  • Ricky Gervais
  • Rebecca Sugar
  • Celeste Ng
  • Robia Rashid
  • Angie Thomas
  • Nancy Hopkins
  • Raychelle Burks
  • Jane K. Willenbring
  • Maya Shankar
  • Diona Reasonover
  • Gillian Jacobs
  • Issa Rae
  • Cordelia Fine
  • Kate Davis
  • Paula Poundstone
  • Mary Roach
  • Movies/Videos

  • Becoming (2020 documentary film)
  • Coded Bias
  • I Am Greta
  • Contradiction: A Question of Faith
  • Bully
  • Netizens
  • Picture a Scientist
  • The Glorias
  • The Hate U Give
  • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
  • Podcasts

  • Ologies with Alie Ward
  • The Michelle Obama Podcast
  • The Sarah Silverman Podcast
  • Periodic Talks
  • A Slight Change of Plans
  • Unladylike
  • Latter-Day Lesbian
  • The Happiness Lab
  • Rationally Speaking Podcast
  • Skepticsโ€™ Guide to the Universe
  • Penn’s Sunday School
  • Code Switch
  • A Mile in my Shoes
  • Talk Nerdy
  • Series

  • Brainchild
  • Adam Ruins Everything
  • Atypical
  • Little Fires Everywhere
  • Steven Universe
  • The Office (U.K.)
  • Websites

  • Americans United for Separation of Church and State
  • Black Nonbelievers (BN)
  • Cordelia Fine

    Cordelia Fine

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    Biography:

    Cordelia Fine (born 1975) is a Research Associate at the Center for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of. Melbourne, Autsralia. Her previous book, ‘A Mind of Its Own’ was hugely acclaimed and she was called ‘a science writer to watch’ by Metro.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Cordelia Fine

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    Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

    Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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    Book Decription:

    Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between menโ€™s and womenโ€™s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as menโ€™s brains arenโ€™t wired for empathy, and womenโ€™s brains arenโ€™t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between menโ€™s and womenโ€™s behavior. Instead of a โ€œmale brainโ€ and a โ€œfemale brain,โ€ Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender.

    Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that menโ€™s and womenโ€™s brains are intrinsically different–a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor–all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Cordelia Fine

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

    Publishing Date: 2010-08-30

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    Issa Rae

    Issa Rae

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    Biography:

    Jo-Issa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl. Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by black people.

    Rae has achieved wider recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO television series Insecure (2016โ€“2021), for which she has been nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. Her 2015 memoir, titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times best-seller. In 2018, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

    Rae has also starred in feature films, with roles in the drama The Hate U Give (2018), the fantasy comedy Little (2019), the romance The Photograph (2020), and the romantic comedy The Lovebirds (2020). She will also voice Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Rae provided the voice work for the short film Hair Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2020.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Cultures, Emotions, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Race and Racism, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
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    The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

    The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

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    Book Decription:

    In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosleyโ€™s I Was Told Thereโ€™d Be Cake and Mindy Kalingโ€™s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what itโ€™s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool.

    My name is โ€œJโ€ and Iโ€™m awkwardโ€”and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?

    Being an introvert in a world that glorifies cool isnโ€™t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Awardโ€“winning hit series โ€œThe Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,โ€ is that introvertโ€”whether sheโ€™s navigating love, work, friendships, or โ€œrappingโ€โ€”it sure is entertaining. Now, in this debut collection of essays written in her witty and self-deprecating voice, Rae covers everything from cybersexing in the early days of the Internet to deflecting unsolicited comments on weight gain, from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourselfโ€”natural hair and all.

    A reflection on her own unique experiences as a cyber pioneer yet universally appealing, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a book no oneโ€”awkward or cool, black, white, or otherโ€”will want to miss.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Cultures, Emotions, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Issa Rae

    Website: Link

    Publisher: 37 Ink

    Publishing Date: 2015-02-10

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    Gillian Jacobs

    Gillian Jacobs

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    Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (/หˆษกษชliษ™n/) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community (2009โ€“2015), Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016โ€“2018) and Atom Eve on the Amazon animated series Invincible (2021). She had a recurring role as Mimi-Rose Howard on the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012โ€“2017) and has appeared in films such as Life Partners (2014), Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), Don’t Think Twice (2016), Brother Nature (2016), Life of the Party (2018), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020), and The Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

    In February 2021, Jacobs and co-host Diona Reasonover premiered a STEM-focused podcast, called Periodic Talks on Stitcher Radio.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Environmental Science, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The News Media, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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    Diona Reasonover

    Diona Reasonover

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    Diona Reasonover is an American actress. She starred as Charmaine Eskowitz in the television show Clipped. She portrays Kasie Hines in the crime drama series NCIS.

     

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Race and Racism, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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  • Periodic Talks
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    Periodic Talks

    Periodic Talks with Diona Reasonover and Gillian Jacobs

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    Podcast Decription:

    What gets you curious? Virtual experiences, celestial bodies, water worlds or maybe just the tiniest mysteries inside your brain? The endlessly curious and curiously funny, Gillian Jacobs (Community, Netflix’s LOVE) and Diona Reasonover (NCIS), step off set to go on tangents with real-life astronauts, astrophysicists, science artists, mathematician-types and other really smart people that investigate what seems impossible.

    Categories: BEHAVIOR, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Environmental Science, Evolution, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Planning, Race and Racism, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, The Scientific Method, THINKING, and What Should Be

    Host:

  • Diona Reasonover
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  • Gillian Jacobs
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    Maya Shankar

    Maya Shankar

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    Maya is currently the Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google and is the Creator, Host, and Executive Producer of โ€œA Slight Change of Plansโ€, a podcast with Pushkin Industries. Maya previously served as a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House’s Behavioral Science Team โ€” a team of scientists charged with improving public policy using research insights about human behavior. In 2016, Maya served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon.

    Maya completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford, after receiving a Ph.D. from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a B.A. from Yale in cognitive science. She has been profiled by the New Yorker and has been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, and on NPR’s All Things Considered, Freakonomics, and Hidden Brain. Maya is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music’s pre-college division and is a former private violin student of Itzhak Perlman.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Other People Exist, Planning, Power, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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    A Slight Change of Plans

    A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar

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    Dr. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who studies how our minds work and how we change. There are few things in life that are as complex and messyโ€”and potentially magicalโ€”as change. On A Slight Change of Plans, youโ€™ll hear intimate conversations that give an unvarnished look into how people navigate changes of all kinds and use that change to ultimately grow. Maya uncovers little-known personal stories and reflections from familiar names like Hillary Clinton, Tiffany Haddish and Kacey Musgraves, and extraordinary stories from real-life inspirations, like a young cancer researcher in the throes of a stage 4 diagnosis and a Black jazz musician who convinced hundreds of KKK members to leave the Klan. Their stories and circumstances couldnโ€™t be more different, but they all share one thing in common: life threw them a (slight) change of plans.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and What Should Be

    Host:

  • Maya Shankar
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    Jane K. Willenbring

    Jane K. Willenbring

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    Jane Kathryn Willenbring is an American geomorphologist and professor at Stanford University. She is best known for using cosmogenic nuclides to investigate landscape changes and dynamics. She has won multiple awards including the Antarctica Service Medal and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Environmental Science, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Gender Roles, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Negative Thinking, Numbers and Mathematics, Other People Exist, Planning, Pride & Shame, Regrets, Relationships, Science, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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  • Picture a Scientist
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