Read more gender stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/94/gender.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:05:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74696/glammed-up-u-bball-stars-spark-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFemale basketball stars' three-pointers, hook shots, muscles and agility don't score with Florida State University officials. They'v also got to look good in the slinky gowns they had to don for the team's web site. Now women are crying foul. Each member of the team, some provocatively clutching basketballs, wears...http://www.newser.com/story/74696/glammed-up-u-bball-stars-spark-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Nov 2009 3:06:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74594/the-meaning-of-caster-semenya.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSouth Africa has rallied around Caster Semenya, but the IAAF still has no idea what to do with her—or the question of gender as a whole. Semenya’s case is particularly personal for South Africans. The country has an unusually high number of intersexed individuals, and apartheid left behind dark...http://www.newser.com/story/74594/the-meaning-of-caster-semenya.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 13:43:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74481/iaaf-denies-it-okd-gold-medal-for-semenya.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe International Association of Athletics Foundation is denying claims by the South African government that it decided to allow runner Caster Semenya to keep her gold medal in the wake of questions about her gender. South African officials announced yesterday that Semenya has been cleared of "wrongdoing" and would be...http://www.newser.com/story/74481/iaaf-denies-it-okd-gold-medal-for-semenya.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 3:54:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74208/old-paris-law-still-stands-no-pants-for-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTurns out fashion-forward Paris has some rather retro regulations. Namely, a ban on women wearing pants. It's the type of law associated with the Sudan, not the Champs-Elysées, but more than 200 years after it was enacted by the city's police chief, the law stands. But today's cops may have...http://www.newser.com/story/74208/old-paris-law-still-stands-no-pants-for-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 11:06:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74149/daughters-are-great-but.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAaron Traister is thrilled to have a daughter—“I was just as excited about my daughter as I was about my son,” he writes. “And she's even better out of the belly.” But the nagging preference for male children in our society has him doubting his own emotions. “If she...http://www.newser.com/story/74149/daughters-are-great-but.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73802/boys-pornified-from-birth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLyn Brown and Sharon Lamb determined in their 2006 book Packaging Girlhood that our culture conditions girls early on to behave as sexual objects. But what about boys? In their new book, the researchers take a look at the other side of the playground and find that the “stark commercialization...http://www.newser.com/story/73802/boys-pornified-from-birth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 13:22:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71079/navy-will-allow-women-to-serve-on-submarines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Navy is going to start allowing women to serve on submarines, with the first female officers reporting for duty in 2011. The close confinement of subs has kept co-ed crews at bay, but that's going to change, reports the Honolulu Advertiser . “I believe women should have every opportunity to...http://www.newser.com/story/71079/navy-will-allow-women-to-serve-on-submarines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 15:41:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70596/women-more-selective-daters-maybe-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWomen may be more “selective” daters, but that distinction could well be based not on innate personality but on social norms and the simple prospect of which gender is doing the pursuing. A new study had subjects participate in a few rounds of speed dating. When the males approached the...http://www.newser.com/story/70596/women-more-selective-daters-maybe-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 13:42:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69835/south-africa-ax-lying-semenya-official.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSouth African government officials are calling for the firing of an athletic director who admitted lying about gender tests before Caster Semenya entered her controversial World Championship race last month. "His lies were to Ms. Semenya's detriment," said a statement from the nation's sports minister, reports the BBC. Leonard Chuene...http://www.newser.com/story/69835/south-africa-ax-lying-semenya-official.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 7:02:10 CDT