Recommended Reads
Books
Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
By Maureen Dowd
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
By Ariel Levy
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Womens History of the World
By Rosalind Miles
Ungendering Civilization
By Edited by K. Anne Pyburn
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
By Sarah Pomeroy
The Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey
By Yeşim Arat
Why Men Are the Way They Are: The Male-Female Dynamic
By Warren Farrell
Women Cant Hear What Men Dont Say: Destroying Myths, Creating Love
By Warren Farrell
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism
By Rebecca Walker
What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future
By Rebecca Walker
News Articles
On the ongoing gender inequality:
CNN.com - Violations of Islamic teachings' take deadly toll on women
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/08/iraq.women/index.html
The Independent | World | Middle East | For the women of Iraq, the war is just beginning
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/for-the-women-of-iraq-the-war-is-just-beginning-481497.html
BBC News I Business I Gender gap' biggest in Egypt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4550789.stm
BBC News | England | London | In the company of women
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4203121.stm
BBC News | World | Asia-Pacific | New women, old problems in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2460087.stm
BBC News | World | Asia-Pacific | China outlaws sexual harassment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4192672.stm
BBC News | South Asia | India loses 10m female births'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4592890.stm
BBC News | Programmes | Crossing Continents | India's dowry deaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3071963.stm
A wide and lingering gap | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/12/gender.equality
On discrimination in favour of women:
BBC News | Scotland | Equal rights take a back seat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4305174.stm
BBC News | England | Tyne | Fathers are ignored', says study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3540695.stm
BBC News | Business | Men cringe as adverts show Girl Power'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/30378.stm
On the battle of the sexes:
CNN.com - Are Men Necessary?'
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/11/15/dowd.men.necessary/index.html?iref=newssearch
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Girls Gone Wild - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/18egan.html
On gender stereotypes:
BBC News | World | Europe | Gender change for Vienna signs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6274213.stm
BBC News | Education | Boys and girls divide over subjects
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/1626782.stm
Metrosexual man bows to red-blooded übersexuals | World news | The Observer http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/23/gender.books
On Feminism:
Disbelieving and Defiant, Students Vow: No Men - The New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DD1E3AF935A35756C0A966958260
Mills Students Protesting Admission of Men - The New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DE1738F936A35756C0A966958260