Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender

The Vanishing Male Writer (marginalrevolution.com)
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list.
Literature, Gender, Social Issues, Publishing, Demographics
7 points by delichon 12 days ago | 0 comments
Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website (bbc.com)
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.
History, Military, Race, Gender, Censorship
77 points by duxup 18 days ago | 22 comments
Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019) (scientificamerican.com)
New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality, and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored
Psychology, Gender, Science, Personality
47 points by Tomte 18 days ago | 19 comments
Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment (psycnet.apa.org)
Psychology, Gender, Meta-Analysis, Parenting
30 points by c-oreills 38 days ago | 17 comments
The Hidden Costs of Men's Social Isolation (scientificamerican.com)
Men are struggling—at least, that’s what many headlines suggest. Compared with women, they report having fewer and less supportive friendships. Men lag behind dramatically in achievements such as higher education attainment. Suicide rates, too, reveal a grim gender disparity: women attempt suicide more often, but men are far more likely to die by it.
Mental Health, Gender, Social Issues
35 points by timbilt 48 days ago | 5 comments
It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work (thefuturefeeling.substack.com)
I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is obvious every year – that the women in the heterosexual couples had done a far larger amount of work than their partners.
Gender, Relationships, Sociology, Family
61 points by bobbiechen 59 days ago | 71 comments
Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to 'man up' − why that's bad for all employees (theconversation.com)
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Jan. 10, 2025, episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he lamented that corporate culture had become too “feminine,” suppressing its “masculine energy” and abandoning supposedly valuable traits such as aggression.
Workplace Culture, Gender, Business Leadership, Social Commentary
6 points by rntn 70 days ago | 1 comments
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination (2017) (scientificamerican.com)
Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary attributes. From the moment we are born—or even before—we are definitively labeled “boy” or “girl.” Yet science points to a much more ambiguous reality.
Science, Biology, Gender, Sex Determination
11 points by Kye 71 days ago | 0 comments
The reason for the rise in male childlessness (bbc.com)
When the US vice-presidential candidate JD Vance made a comment about “childless cat ladies”, he evoked an image of educated, urbanite, career-minded women.
Demographics, Social Trends, Gender, Family, Politics
15 points by Qem 71 days ago | 9 comments
Trump's Executive Order Against Trans Technically Makes Every American Female (iflscience.com)
Moments after the presidential inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed several anti-scientific executive orders (EOs), such as taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement to curtail human-made climate change and withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization. He also signed an EO targeting trans and non-binary people which had the unintended consequence of making every single American female. If you will legislate with scientific words, you should know the science.
Politics, Science, Gender, United States
15 points by Tomte 72 days ago | 12 comments
Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders in the Future? (erikmcclure.com)
Something that is very common is for people pushing the boundaries of technology (or pretending to, anyway) to hold weirdly conservative social views.
Future, Gender, Technology, Social Views
13 points by blackhole 74 days ago | 4 comments
The Typical Man Disgusts the Typical Woman (betonit.ai)
Ever seen this famous OkCupid graph? The quick summary is just: “Men rate women more highly than women rate men.”
Dating, Gender, Social Science, Psychology, Relationships
36 points by jger15 80 days ago | 44 comments
The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women (rte.ie)
During a recent trip to London, I had the honour of finally visiting the Vagina Museum. This delightful museum is an inclusive space that celebrates vulvas, vaginas, and advocates for self-acceptance and equality.
History, Sex, Gender, Culture, Museums
22 points by austinallegro 81 days ago | 17 comments
Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More 'Masculine Energy' (bloomberg.com)
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bit more.”
Business, Culture, Gender, Leadership
10 points by healsdata 82 days ago | 1 comments
Male and female brains are wired differently (earth.com)
Have you ever found yourself in a heated discussion with someone of the opposite sex and thought – “it’s like we’re wired differently”? Well, a recent study from the University of Cambridge suggests that male and female brains are indeed wired differently from the time of birth.
Neuroscience, Gender, Biology
32 points by isaacfrond 84 days ago | 23 comments
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)
“Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”
Education, Demographics, Gender, Higher Education
18 points by tempestn 92 days ago | 24 comments
Women are closing in on men when it comes to ultra-endurance events (medicalxpress.com)
Men are dominant at most athletic events but ultra-endurance sports (exercising for six hours or more) represent a unique domain where the performance gap between men and women is narrowing significantly.
Sports, Gender, Performance, Endurance
4 points by pseudolus 93 days ago | 0 comments
Study: RTO mandates are making it harder for companies to hire (fastcompany.com)
A new study found that RTO mandates across S&P 500 companies significantly increased turnover among tech and finance workers—especially for women.
Workforce, Employment, Remote Work, Technology, Gender
27 points by znpy 118 days ago | 16 comments
Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires (plos.org)
Thin and muscular have been characterised as body shape ideals for women and men, respectively, yet each sex misperceives what the other sex desires; women exaggerate the thinness that men like and men exaggerate the muscularity that women like.
Psychology, Body Image, Gender, Misperception, Relationships
84 points by cainxinth 121 days ago | 65 comments
U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group (pewresearch.org)
Women between the ages of 25 and 34 continue to be more likely than men in the same age group to have a bachelor’s degree. The gender gap in bachelor’s degree completion appears in every major racial or ethnic group, though the size of the gap varies widely.
Education, Gender, Demographics
105 points by samspenc 133 days ago | 263 comments
Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man (theguardian.com)
The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking the moment when the first cohort of women, including Debbie McGee and Fay Presto, were admitted to its previously male-only ranks of magicians.
Magic, Gender, History, United Kingdom, Entertainment
33 points by Emigre_ 143 days ago | 47 comments
Age-Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders (twitter.com)
Startup Funding, Startups, Gender, Biology, Venture Capital
7 points by Mdubrov 146 days ago | 0 comments
Study finds intense exercise may suppress appetite in healthy humans (endocrine.org)
A vigorous workout does more to suppress hunger levels in healthy adults than does moderate exercise, and females may be especially susceptible to this response, according to a small study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
Health, Exercise, Appetite, Physiology, Gender
33 points by gnabgib 149 days ago | 12 comments
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)
“Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”
Education, Gender, Demographics, College Enrollment, Social Issues
15 points by hui-zheng 164 days ago | 10 comments
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)
“Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”
Education, Gender, Demographics
16 points by herbertl 174 days ago | 16 comments
How Often Do Men Think About Rome? (astralcodexten.com)
There’s a Twitter meme on how men constantly think about the Roman Empire. Some feminist friends objected that women think about Rome a lot too. To settle the matter, I included a question about this on this year’s ACX survey, “Have you thought about the Roman Empire in the past 24 hours?” (the Byzantine Empire also counted). Here are responses from 607 cis women and 4,925 cis men:
Social Media, Gender, Survey Results, History, Roman Empire
5 points by paulpauper 191 days ago | 3 comments
"Stockholm Syndrome" was invented by police to discredit a female hostage (2020) (stadafa.com)
The phrase “Stockholm Syndrome” was invented by a police psychiatrist to discredit a female hostage in a 1973 bank heist who criticized the police.
Psychology, Crime, History, Gender
91 points by simonebrunozzi 203 days ago | 62 comments
Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman (sigops.org)
Ethics, Computer Science, Gender, Success
64 points by thread_id 210 days ago | 75 comments
Elon Musk supports replacing democracy with government of high-status males (independent.co.uk)
Elon Musk, Politics, Democracy, Gender
24 points by isaacfrond 213 days ago | 22 comments
Andrew Gelman: Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? (stat.columbia.edu)
Marriage, Happiness, Gender, Social Science, Statistics
52 points by paulpauper 213 days ago | 40 comments