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Sexist Shirts and Bimbo Barbies: Six Products That Caused Outcries Over Gender

Girls actually can do math (gasp!), yet retailers continue to commit offensive gaffes by insulting their target audience’s intelligence with stereotypical merchandise.

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JCPenney Yanks ‘I’m Too Pretty To Do Homework’ T-Shirt After Online Outcry

JCPenney has just pulled an offensive t-shirt from its website after social-media backlash.  Aimed for girls ages 7 to 16, the shirt reads “I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me.”  Uh, seriously?

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A Win for Women: Females Hold More Advanced Degrees

Continuing their increasing dominance in higher education, Census figures released Tuesday show that for the first time in history women in the U.S. hold more advanced college degrees than their male counterparts.