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As your teacher passes out the math test, your palms turn sweaty. You notice that your heart has begun to race. Glancing down at the page, you suddenly forget those operations on which you had drilled only a few days earlier. Do you perform all additions first in a complex calculation, or all multiplications? What’s the multiplication table again for 9’s? Oh, you know it — well you’re pretty sure, right? Suddenly, you start to doubt a lot of things that you “know.”

PsyPost

New research published in the journal Sex Roles examined how women who choose to keep their own surname after marriage are perceived in the United States.

Bustle

In news that will probably surprise absolutely no one, new research has shown that women who don’t change their names when they get married are perceived by other people to be much less committed to their marriages than those who do are.

La Reforma

Cancellation thousand 600 million dollars in investment in Mexico Ford is just the beginning, he warned yesterday the US president - elect.

Freundin

In the context of equal rights, it has been possible for women since 1976 in Germany to choose their own last name at a wedding ceremony to the family name. Scientists from UNLV have now conducted a study in the United States examining how women who keep their maiden name are seen by their fellow humans.

The Daily Dot

A new study of college students reveals that, despite many feminist ideas becoming more mainstream, we’re still punishing women for not changing their name for heterosexual marriage. The study, which questioned far more women than men, showed undergraduate students think women who don’t change their names weren’t as committed to their spouses.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Would they bolt, or wouldn’t they? With raw feelings still lingering over an election that saw the loser get almost three million more votes, all eyes today were on America’s electors.

Konbini France

By titling "Gender Revolution" in its January issue, National Geographic magazine highlights transgender people through the face of 9-year-old Avery Jackson.

NBC News

In an effort to shed more light on a topic that has been at the center of social and political debates all year, National Geographic will be debuting a new magazine and accompanying documentary dedicated to examining gender around the world.

Mashable

"The question is what appeal will these Spectacles have, if any, to this industry. Will they see these as a different kind of POV niche that it might be able to financially profit from or build a more general porn viewership," said Lynn Comella, associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Will it be different from Google Glass?"

National Geographic

She always felt like a man, not a girl.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Clark County Commission chairman Steve Sisolak is staying tight-lipped on whether he’ll run for governor of Nevada in 2018.