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Yes, Women Can Do Pull-Ups

You should know better than to take fitness advice from the New York Times. The latest reason: their story today entitled, "Why Women Can't Do Pull-Ups." Women: you can do pull-ups. Do not believe the ... read more

The New York Times

This column appears in the Oct. 28 issue of The New York Times Magazine ... a male recruit should be able to do at least 3 pull-ups or chin-ups, but women are not required to do them. In school, 14-ye... read more

How women can learn to do pull-ups: Solving the Marines’ female pull-up problem

Women can do pull-ups – they just require special training, according to Polly de Mille, an exercise physiologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Even men who haven’t trained can ... read more

EDITORIAL: Female marines can’t do three pullups, shows some military tasks are for men

... news last week and brought forward the not-so-surprising fact that men and women are different: More than half of the female trainees were unable to do even three pullups. Men passed with ease. Th... read more

A UW professor argued that women don’t want to code. What do women computer scientists have to say?

Hence, when they get to college, fewer of the women have been exposed to the excitement of CS, and they do not necessarily appreciate the countless ways they can use CS to make their mark on society. ... read more

Why girls and women can’t do pull-ups

14 year-old boys can reach the highest performance level by doing 10 pull-ups; for 14 year-old girls, it’s only 2. So why can’t girls and women do pull-ups. As it turns out, this is an area of persona... read more

Women Can't Do Pull-Ups and the Presidential Physical Fitness Test Is a Lie

Remember the Presidential Physical Fitness Test ... they can't lose as much fat. Men can conceivably get to 4 percent body fat; women typically bottom out at more than 10 percent. So, it's definitely ... read more

Marines Quietly Conclude That Women Sort of Suck at Doing Pullups

As the Marine Corps inches closer to permitting women into ground combat roles, the service is delaying its 2014 plan to require female Marines to do three pullups. The reason ... also current female ... read more

Should a Woman in a Bikini Expect to Be “Taken Seriously”? (Yes.)

These bathing suits do not ... heads they can turn. Modesty can become a form of female power. In Rey's words, this is "the power to be treated as an equal, to be seen as in control, and to be taken s... read more

DONNELLY: Lowering female Marines’ physical standards puts politics before readiness

If it is too much to require female recruits to do three pullups ... women are “gender-neutral.” They are not. In a report to Congress last June, the Marine Corps stated that its plans for women in la... read more

Do Women Like Being Sexually Harassed? Men in New Survey Say Yes.

Ahmed Mahmud/AFP/Getty Images Almost every woman who’s been catcalled has wondered, to herself or to friends, what men get out of the sport. Do they really think she ... appear to prove long-standing ... read more