As young girls we were taught about social and behavioral norms and traditional gender roles right along with our ABCs. According to many of those verbal hand-me-downs, a man is supposed to be a provider (“bringing home the bacon”) and a woman’s job is to be a homemaker and bear children. How archaic….  Modern times reflect […]

Facebook recently added more than 50 new gender options, including transgender and transsexual, to its profile settings for users who do not identify as male or female. The social network giant announced the landmark changes on the Facebook Diversity page on Thursday, explaining that the tech company wants users to feel comfortable being their “true, […]

Will, a friend of mine just got a major job offer, which will bump up his salary by several thousand dollars each month. For someone still in their late twenties, that is a very big accomplishment. When we went out to celebrate though, he wasn’t celebrating the hard work, long hours, loss of any semblance […]