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Candaele asserts that my mother Helen Callaghan and my Aunt Margaret Callaghan Maxwell played in the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League and the documentary I produced on their years playing pro ball--also titled A League of Their Own--was the basis for the Columbia Pictures film that starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Madonna. I wrote the story for the feature film. Through the years I've talked to many girls and young women about the movie. Their love for the film derives from its portrayal of talented female athletes who are strong, competitive and as dedicated to their sport as any male professional. From my random sampling of comments, those who think Dottie dropped the ball on purpose as an act of sisterly love far outnumber those who disagree. No one has, or ever will, play the game perfectly. In fact, a game that could theoretically be played perfectly would soon become boring. Thoughtful professional athletes appreciate this fact, while most fans do not.

Purpose Using gender schema theory, this study aims to explore how children’s graphic t-shirts from clothing retailers in the USA differed on gendered themes for graphic t-shirts targeting boys or girls, in addition to differences for shirts that were higher in cost. Design/methodology/approach This content analysis of children’s t-shirts included 866 child-targeted shirts taken from the online retail portals from 11 clothing retailers in the USA. Shirts were coded for gendered themes on the front torso part of the shirt and included traditional boy themes (e.g. aggression, instrumentality) and girl themes (e.g. compassion, passivity). In addition, the retail prices for each shirt were recorded at the time of data collection. Findings The results demonstrated that children’s graphic t-shirts starkly differentiate between femininity and masculinity based on their target. Boys’ shirts were significantly more likely to feature active themes, whereas girls’ shirts were more likely to focus on social belonging and interpersonal connection. Boys’ shirts were also more likely to display themes linked to dominance/aggression but not compassion. Girls’ shirts were more likely to tout both shyness and attention seeking. Finally, results generally showed that higher priced t-shirts were less likely to feature gender stereotypes than lower-priced t-shirts. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first known study that has looked at the marketing of children’s clothes in retail environments with a specific focus on gender and gender stereotyping.

Data on weathercasters at local television stations in all 210 markets in the United States were gathered through individual weathercaster biography web pages provided on television news station websites. The weathercasters’ genders, positions, and educational backgrounds were compiled and analyzed to determine women’s presence in local broadcast meteorology. While the overall percentage of females in the field increased and females were more represented in larger markets, females held fewer influential and desired positions in 2016 compared with previous studies. Women made up 29% of all weathercaster positions, which was higher than in earlier studies that showed the percentage at 25% or less over the past two decades. Females made up 8% of chief meteorologist positions and less than 11% of evening shifts, which were lower than numbers in previous studies. The proportion of female weathercasters who held meteorology degrees was lower than their male counterparts (52% of females compared with 59% of males). This difference was statistically significant (p < 0.01). Chi-squared tests revealed strong and statistically significant associations between males and chief meteorologist positions and between males and evening shifts. There was a higher percentage of weathercasters with meteorology degrees in smaller markets as opposed to larger markets.

Kac-Vergne identifies the conflict between Snake (Kurt Russell) and the Duke (Isaac Hayes) as symptomatic of a divide-and-rule policy, on behalf of the ruling elite, between white, blue-collar workers and African-Americans. [...]she examines The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) and I, Robot (2004) where intelligent female characters are unceremoniously sidelined once the violent, hypermasculine spectacle begins. Kac-Vergne identifies in The Matrix a 'rainbow coalition' of androgynous women, Hispanics and African-Americans formed against an explicitly white male enemy, spearheaded by a multi-ethnic star (Keanu Reeves), although his white skin tone is foregrounded in the films.