Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a ...

You may have heard feminists accuse people who make blanket statements about people based on their gender of "gender essentialism." But what is gender essentialism, and why is it harmful? The concept, ...

Medically reviewed by Kathleen Daly, MD Gender essentialism is the widely discredited and outdated idea that men and women act differently and have different options in life because of intrinsic or ...

While people often clutter their lives with too many commitments both in and outside the workplace, Greg McKeown offers a new approach to living – that of the essentialist. In his New York Times ...

Whether you’re running your own business or managing a team, it’s easy to fall victim to decision fatigue. Leaders face so many stressors and decision points throughout the day that at some point the ...

The shift toward essentialism suggests that true luxury is no longer found in status symbols or the pursuit of excess ...

London”s mayor, Boris Johnson, drew criticism late last year for saying that economic inequality can be attributed, in part, to IQ. “I am afraid that (the) violent economic centrifuge is operating on ...

There is never an excuse for rape. Although there has been an increase in discussion of rape on college campuses, there is still a tendency among some individuals at universities to blame the victim. ...