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imagining a world free of stereotypes for all boys and girls allowing them to grow and learn and be their true selves.

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Forbes magazine puts a gender lens on the COVID epidemic.
https://t.co/cm97HntySd

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Good to see researchers finally getting some hard data on the obvious connection between traditional masculinity and mask-wearing avoidance.

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U.S. Survey: Men Find Wearing Masks ‘Shameful, Not Cool and a Sign of Weakness’

https://t.co/tgJvmetf5C

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And yes, men with stronger belief in masculinity less likely to wear masks/social distance. Risk-taking and defying public health guidelines is really manly...amirite?

https://t.co/Ggq3VPCzwq

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Yes, there is a gender norms analysis of the COVID epidemic and it turns out women-led countries seem to cope better.
https://t.co/bhfgA5fDOK

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New book from TrueChild for funders, non-profits "Gender Norms & Intersectionality: Connecting Race Class & Gender" published by Rowman & Littlefield. https://t.co/1MWuLQK8h2

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I suspect we fill find the same is true in areas like education, juvenile justice, etc. Nice to see such powerful organizations finally making this argument as well.

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Gates reports bookend series by The World Bank making similar case that achieving economic equity and empowerment will also require first addressing social gender norms https://t.co/IlFdg6RVT9

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Gates Foundation has published a 5-part series in The Lancet making the case that achieving health equity will require first addressing rigid gender norms. https://t.co/fCUVeSAJfm

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Meet kids who break gender stereotypes, boundaries https://t.co/ApVDLgPChe

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Fight continues: which female athletes qualify & are allowed to compete as women?
https://t.co/cN6oIOCqVk

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Girls with short hair harassed, taunted, cut frm soccer team but "are bad ass" anyway
https://t.co/RK2w3oMyC3

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NYT Black girls are denied a normal childhood and we make them grow up much too quickly
https://t.co/7QsGXmJcMi

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Google searches reveal when parents look up about intelligence it's almost always related to their sons.
https://t.co/wPVOYAHE2a

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US ignoring Afghan warlords who keep & abuse feminized boys as sex slaves.

https://t.co/vZdTNE8FWh

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ATLANTIC: Why women are mean to other women in the workplace.

https://t.co/WMaEIzN0sc

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https://t.co/sPxQD0lw7H

Brumese Woman born into royalty left family, became opium smuggler then rebel leader to live as man.

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https://t.co/4fisfQdDhr

India: Aborting female fetuses/neglect of girls means 50m more men than women today

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CNN: nonbinary, gender-neutral and redefining gender in the 21st century

https://t.co/ZTdL4SX3kd

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https://t.co/0H1N6du2EB

Communities with Surplus males = more rape child marriage, partner violence (same article)