Gender Roles

Growing up you wouldn’t catch me dead with anything pink. Pink meant girly, and girly—I was convinced—meant weak.…

Conventional thinking in anthropology has it that prehistoric hunting was an activity reserved for males, while…

What was the bed of the future supposed to look like? If you went to a British movie theater in 1959, you may have…

One of the downsides to watching genre series and movies airing on TV channels aimed at younger audiences is the…

When you comb through old newspaper articles looking for predictions for the future like I do you can start to…

Traditional gender roles have been shifting over the past few decades and that’s probably for the best. Not just…

What do you imagine will be the biggest challenges that the world will face in 20 years? Energy or food scarcity?…

The 30-minute 1952 film Mother Takes a Holiday was produced by the Whirlpool Corporation to sell washers and dryers.…

A young boy feels powerful when he pretends to play the wicked sorceress in his backyard games, but the laughing of…

While flipping through the 1954 book A Trip Through Space I was struck by one aspect of the interstellar story that…

This is one of those things that won't surprise, but it's still certainly interesting. What you're seeing in the…

In many cultures, girls play with dolls more often than boys do. Now chimps have been observed treating sticks like…

The 1910 film Looking Forward, directed by Theodore Marston, imagines a crazy dystopia where women rule the world.…

We seem to have been waiting for the smart cupboard/fridge for quite a while now. Though the continued spread of…

The July 1, 1928 San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) ran a syndicated story titled, “Romantic Old Maids Can Hear the…

The November 21, 1955 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, AK) ran a short piece with the predictions of Mrs.…

The April 25, 1950 Yuma Daily Sun (Yuma, AZ) ran this picture of Moulton Taylor's "Aerocar" which could be converted…

The January 2, 1968 Lima News (Lima, OH) ran the third in a series of articles based on research by the Commission…