Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender

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 7 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 18 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 29 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 30 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 30 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 30 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 33 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 39 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 40 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 41 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 42 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 51 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 52 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 77 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 79 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 92 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_ 102 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 105 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 108 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 123 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 133 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 150 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 161 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 169 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 171 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 172 days ago | 40 comments

Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither? (stat.columbia.edu)