Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The balance in education. The gender gap in education and employment ; An educator's primer on the gender war / David Sadker ; Are gender stereotypes taught in school? / KeriLee Horan ; Feminization of schools / Janet D. Mulvey ; The need to address equal educational opportunities for women and girls / Ariela Migdal, Emily J. Martin, Mie Lewis, Lenora M. Lapidus ; Gender versus sex: what's the difference? / John Carl ; For women on campuses, access doesn't equal success / MaryAnn Baenninger ; Women face a testing time to secure an MBA place / Emma Boyde ; The role of gender in scholarly authorship / Jevin D. West, Jennifer Jacquet, Molly M. King, Shelley J. Correll, Carl T. Bergstrom ; Breaking the code / Caitlin Byrd ; Paul Graham's right / Cromwell Schubarth -- 2. Cracks in the glass ceiling: women leaders. Working women ; The shaping of culturally proficient leaders / Carmella S. Franco, Maria G. Ott, Darline P. Robles ; Do women lead differently? / Sherry Ricchiardi ; In praise of Sheryl Sandberg / Christine Rosen ; The corporate mystique / Judith Shulevitz ; Oprah / Miki Turner ; Sustaining the feminist movement / Allison R. Bernstein ; Glass ceiling / Nicole Auerbach ; Open-access harassment: science, technology and women / Georgina Voss and Alice Bell ; Meet the all-male team over at Tesla / John Goreham -- 3. Women, men, and political life. Gender in the realm of politics ; Bridging the gender gap in politics leads to greater consensus / Glenn Davis ; Looking ahead / Catherine M. Russell ; Why I'm voting for her / Jessica Valenti ; Immigrants' greatest potential ally - American women / Elena Shore ; The feminist factor / Eleanor Smeal ; House of cads / Marin Cogan ; Take their wives, please / Isaac Chotiner ; Where are politics' interracial couples? / Keli Goff -- 4. Media and the sexes. Women in the media: on screen and off ; Examining media's socialization of gender roles / Warren J. Blumenfeld ; Combine equal parts Oprah and Martha / Lisa Miller ; Changing the portrayal of women in the media / Susan Bulkeley Butler ; YouTube's most-viewed videos / Mary Tucker-McLaughlin ; Sex sells sex, not women's sports / Mary Jo Kane ; Women still have long way to go in sports journalism / Scarlett McCourt ; Girls talk / Katelyn Beaty ; Difficult women / Emily Nussbaum ; On overlooking female chefs and the Time "Gods of Food" issue / Kate Dries ; How using sexy female avatars in video games changes women / Eliana Dockterman ; One weird old trick to undermine the patriarchy / Michelle Nijhuis -- 5. Gender roles in America. Shifting gender roles in the home and workplace ; Alpha women, beta men / Ralph Gardner Jr. ; Behind every great woman / Carol Hymowitz ; Who does more at home: men or women? / Belinda Luscombe ; Race? No, millennials care most about gender equality / Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais ; The gender gap / Julia Perla Huisman ; Military gender issue reignites as 45 percent of female Marines fail pull-up test / Bob Adelmann ; When mom comes home from war / Champ Clark and Susan Keating.