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“ Many strong girls have similar stories: They were socially isolated and lonely in adolescence. Smart girls are often the girls most rejected by peers. Their strength is a threat and they are punished for being different. Girls who are unattractive...

Photograph by Roger Lemoyne It was 1996, Jean Chrétien was prime minister, it was cheaper to rent an apartment in Vancouver than live in residence and, at Brock University, both sexes were dying their hair blond. A year at university would set you...

The Keystone pipeline might be approved this year, but Mark Hertsgaard says an important new book shows what activists have to do to psychologically commit to fighting for the environment. by Mark Hertsgaard, The Daily Beast, July 14, 2013  When...

It took two men with a vision to create an all-girls village On the Tuesday before winter break, a spirited debate has broken out in Jamie Knorr’s sixth-grade history class at Village School, the all-girls middle school he and Proal Heartwell founded...

Boys will be boys, the old maxim goes. But not if misguided feminists have their way, says philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers. In her book, The War Against Boys, Sommers attacks the modern myth that society is somehow “short-changing” girls. According...