Baby Names and #MeToo, Take 2
By: Tristan Bridges and Philip N. Cohen Last year in January, we wrote about name contamination as a telling illustration of how gender inequality is perpetuated. While a great deal of research and...
View ArticleUrbanicity and LGBT Demographics
As more and more surveys are including questions attempting to capture the size of the LGBT identifying population in the U.S., I’ve been interested. I’m interested in the measures being used, what...
View ArticleGender Gap in Top Ten Baby Names – 2018 Update
I’ve been tracking shifts in the proportion of U.S. babies given top ten names among boys and girls since 2015. I think it’s a really fascinating trend and I use it some of my classrooms. The basic...
View ArticleTrends in Androgynous U.S. Baby Names
Looking at gender and gender inequality through baby name data is something I’ve posted about before. Recently, Philip Cohen wrote a smart post thinking through how to measure whether androgynous baby...
View ArticleThe Origins of Androgyny in Baby Names
Apologies in advance for the abundance of baby name post recently. I had another thought after posting yesterday, tracing some of the names Lieberson, Dumais, and Baumann (2000) identified as following...
View ArticleThe “Beth Schneider Effect” on the Sociology of Sexualities
Originally posted at Feminist Reflections. Beth Schneider was the chair of my department the year I was hired and retired last winter. During the time I have come to know Beth, she quickly became one...
View ArticleShifts in Gender and Sexual Identities in the U.S. – 2022 Update
Gallup just recently released new estimates of the size of the LGBT(+?) population in the U.S. I have been writing about and tracking Gallup’s data for a while. Their new data are useful and allow us...
View ArticleCounting Mass Shootings is a National Emergency
How many mass shootings did the United States experience between 2013 and 2020? It’s a simple question. And it seems like it would be easy enough to answer. But it isn’t that simple. There is not...
View ArticleShifts in Gender and Sexual Identities in the U.S., 2023 Update
Every year since 2013, Gallup has been releasing new data on the size and composition of the LGBT+ identifying population in the U.S. Measuring gender and sexual identities on this scale presents a...
View ArticleWhy answering “How many mass shootings…?” is more difficult than it should be
Americans generally agree that mass shootings require our attention. They might even agree on the notion that mass shootings require interventions. One thing that really struck me when I started...
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