Tina Brown has given Western feminism something it has lacked since the 1970s: a contemporary purpose worthy of its illustrious past.
National Review Online
February 15, 2011
Gender bias has been a hot button topic of discrimination for many years, but after analyzing 20 years of data, two Cornell professors have concluded that, in academic science, women are treated just as well as men.
Misinformation on domestic violence against women leads to misdirected policies that fail to target the true causes of violence.
The battle continues over the translation of "The Second Sex," by Simone de Beauvoir. But the truth is that the book is painful to read in any language, including French.
The United States is one of a few nations that hasn't ratified CEDAW, but a closer look at the content shows that the Senate has been wise to resist for 31 years.
Conservative women may wish to describe themselves as feminists, and they may offer a new model of women's empowerment that large numbers of American women find inspiring.
Among the top items left on the Senate's to-do list before the November elections is a "paycheck fairness" bill, which is predicated on the wage gap between men and women, but the bill is not as commonsensical as it might seem.
The political wing of the women's sports movement is in trouble as it tries to challenge the market by taking on TV sports coverage.
Myths about rises in domestic abuse on days of major sporting events are exaggerated and misleading and put truly at-risk women in other parts of the world at greater risk.
The developing gender gap in the gifted programs in New York City shows how American boys across the ability spectrum and in all age groups have become second-class citizens in the nation's schools.
The House of Representatives is poised to mandate gender-bias-awareness workshops known as STEMinars that have the capacity to undermine the meritocratic culture that enables America’s success in science.
The claim that American women as a group face systemic wage discrimination is groundless.
Will ratification of the UN Women's Treaty really improve the well-being of women throughout the world? How will ratification affect American life?
The world badly needs a responsible, reality-based women's movement.
Is a program aimed at empowering women in science hurting the industry?
Gender bias is the usual explanation for why few women reach the top levels of academic science, but what if the explanation is more complex than that?
How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan toward women's jobs.
One reason that feminist scholarship contains hard-to-kill falsehoods is that reasonable, evidence-backed criticism is regarded as a personal attack.
Claims of bias against women in academic science have been greatly exaggerated. Meanwhile, men are becoming the second sex in American higher education.
The "problem that has no name," as described by Betty Friedan, no longer exists.
Culture and Civilization, vol. 1
May 20, 2009
Contemporary feminism routinely depicts American society as a dangerous patriarchy in which women are under siege.
What is good for women's basketball may not be good for nuclear physics.
Hamilton College
November 19, 2008
Equity feminism is a great American success story.
Betty Friedan's fatal mistakewas attackingthe domestic sphere itself--along with all the women who chose to live there.
Title-nining the physical sciences is a bad idea.
AEI Online
August 1, 2008
Classical, not radical, feminism offers a tried-and-true roadmap to equality and freedom. It is time to reclaim true feminism and restore its lost history.
Freedom used to stand at the heart of feminism, but modern feminists have succeeded in erasing history.
By regulating gender representation in the sciences as it does for sports, Congress would compromise the intellectual integrity of research.
Women earn most of America’s advanced degrees but lag in the physical sciences. Beware of plans to fix the "problem."
AEI Online
November 2, 2007
The time for free, informed inquiry into sex differences is now.
The time for free, informed inquiry into sex differences is now.
The time for free, informed inquiry into sex differences is now.
A new book rightly points to those attributes which we all must recognize as uniquely male, flying in the face of political correctness and efforts within education to avoid "gender bias."
How does Islamic feminism differ from American feminism? What can American feminists learn from Islamic ones?
If not engaging in moral equivalence, the feminist vanguard in the United States neglects the plight of Muslim women, butMuslim womenare fighting for their rights.
The Equal Rights Amendment would hand radical feminist groups a powerful weapon to wage war on what they view as "the gender system."
Bernard Chapin interviews Christina Hoff Sommers on feminism, campus culture, Hillary Clinton, and more.
Sixties-style activism and political fervor have their place, but these are often practiced at the expense of the intellectual, economic and civic mission that a university is expected to fulfill.
Despite what Education Sector says, we are strikingly better at educating young women than young men.
Nowadays we find something disreputable about this kind of assertion and counter-assertion of identity. It is fundamentally at odds with the multiculturalist orthodoxy of the last 30 years.
Determining which sex is the more generous is like deciding which is more physically attractive: there is no objective answer.
What are the Department of Education and National Science Foundation doing about the problem of male underachievement? Nothing.
A review of Harvey C. Mansfield's Manliness.
The Norwegian model will create a two-tier system of corporate leadership: men will be chosen because of their value to the company, women simply because they are women.
Campuses need effective policies against genuine harassment. They do not need the divisive gender politics of the AAUW spin sisters.
A book review of Women Who Make the World Worse, and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports, by Kate O'Beirne
In the opening pages of Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide, Maureen Dowd says that when it comes to sex and love she has "no answers." So why read the book?
A lesson from 9/11 is that therapists must find a balance between letting people know help is available and suggesting that they need help when they do not.
Washington Post
August 14, 2005
Being human is not a condition in need of a cure.
Recent years have seen a flood of books and articles pushing the notion that Americans are emotionally damaged. Please.
Children today can handle failure, tug of war, and even red ink on homework assignments. In fact, they would be better off if adults would simply back off.
National Review Online
May 2, 2005
WhenCollege Republicansrained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating Penis Day and staging a satire called The Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror.
New York Sun
April 25, 2005
An interview with resident scholarsChristina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, authors ofOne Nation under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance.
AEI Online
April 14, 2005
Indignation over Harvard president Lawrence Summers's commentsregarding possible differences between men and women has exposed the lack of intellectual debate in academia.
It is human nature to sometimes feel sad, frustrated, angry, resentful, or insecure. But human nature is not a pathology in need of a cure.
Wall Street Journal
March 29, 2005
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University hosted a forum for indignation over the possibility of inborn differences between the sexes raised by Larry Summers.
National Review Online
March 22, 2005
Such "virtues" as being sensitive and protective of everyone's self-esteem now count for more in an academic leader than integrity, intellectual vision, or a commitment to free inquiry.
USA Today
February 21, 2005
All behaviors have physical markers. As neuroscientists identify more of them, will anyone be held accountable for anything?
Young America's Foundation 26th Annual National Conservative Student Conference
August 3, 2004
Do not let Eve’s Army hijack Valentine’s Day, a day that celebrates love and romance.
AEI Bradley Lecture
February 9, 2004
Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel discuss the rise of "therapism" in America.
Washington Post
August 10, 2003
Liberal arts colleges should be presented with the choice of lifting the ban on ROTC or losing government support.
AEI Online
August 1, 2003
Liberal arts colleges should be presented with the choice of lifting the ban on the Reserve Officer Training Corps or losing government support.
Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2003
What happened to the "equity feminism" bequeathed by our feminist foremothers?
Richmond Times-Dispatch
January 19, 2003
Wall Street Journal
July 24, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
June 26, 2002
Signing United Nations CEDAW treaty is still a very bad idea.
Testimony by Christina Hoff Sommers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 13, 2002.
Much of the debate over gender would be aided with the acknowledgement that boys and girls are different.
The Christian Science Monitor
May 6, 2002
Conservative scholars have effectively been marginalized, silenced, and rendered invisible on most campuses.
AEI Online
February 1, 2002
Girl Power! and Boy Talk, two national programs ostensibly designed to discourage substance abuse among U.S. children, should be eliminated.
The Weekly Standard
January 14, 2002
AEI Online
December 1, 2001
Single-sex schooling may hold the key to fulfilling the academic and moral needs of at-risk children, but experiments using that approach have been derailed by gender-obsessed scholars.
Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2001
Many grief counselors thinkthat Sept. 11 attacks triggered a national mental health crisis; not so.
Education Week
September 26, 2001
The Women's Quarterly
July 1, 2001
Penmanship plays a critical role in a child’s basic literacy and overall success in school and when schools choose not to teach it, it is boys who pay the highest price.
To its discredit, Harvard University has accepted a major donation earmarked for advancing the trendy but shoddy scholarship of a controversial gender theorist.
Independent Women's Forum discusses why government, schools, businesses, and hospitals have suffered under the regime of political correctness.
Free Inquiry
April 1, 2001
The Wall Street Journal
March 9, 2001
We need a firm resolve to resist the temptation to treat healthy kids as miserable mental cases.
USA Today
February 8, 2001
V-Day proponents implicate the average man in social atrocity and place U.S. on a moral par with countries that practice genital mutilation and bride burnings.
American Outlook
January 1, 2001
Review of book Millennials Rising.
AEI Online
January 1, 2001
A growing body of evidence suggests that repressing one’s feelings may have greater psychological benefits than expressing them.
Free Inquiry
December 1, 2000
Free Inquiry
September 1, 2000
The Washington Post
August 22, 2000
Sad to say, any serious national effort to strengthen boys academically will face bitter opposition from
The U.S. Department of Educationstudy, whichcontroverts the conventional belief that girls are shortchanged in the nation's schools, surprised even the statisticians who put it together.
Free Inquiry
July 1, 2000
Atlantic Monthly
May 1, 2000
Wall Street Journal
February 11, 2000
Ex Femina
January 1, 2000
Weekly Standard
October 4, 1999
Review of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi
New York Times
January 9, 1999
Findings show that there is a lot of crude sexual misbehavior in our schools, but it is not a form of "sex discrimination."
AEI Bradley Lecture Series
November 9, 1998
Christina Hoff Sommers' Bradley Lecture.
The Women's Quarterly
September 1, 1998
Boston Globe
February 2, 1998
Free Inquiry
December 1, 1997
AEI Online
August 21, 1997
Female undergraduates are still taught a litany of feminist myths.
AEI Bradley Lecture Series
September 12, 1994
New gender feminists have given feminism a bad name; women who care about women's issues must find their way back to the classical feminism of the first wave.
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