On Seattle’s Morning News today, we introduced you to the first female high school quarterback in Florida. She doesn’t “throw like a girl.” But how come most girls do? A dude who’s studied this at the ...
Is “throwing like a girl” a real thing? This week, the Washington Post launched a full investigation into the gender divide between how men and women hurl objects into the air using only their hands.
As much as the expression grates, girls do, in general, throw like girls. Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has studied the gender ...
When you watch your favorite pitcher throw a 100 mph strike, you may thinking about his impressive strength. But Neil Roach, a recent Harvard graduate, is much more concerned with something else: ...
A female freelance writer wanted to discover why she threw, as the insult goes, like a girl. As it turns out, science taught her, and us, that it's for one reason: she's a girl. Janet Hyde, a ...
While Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton did not throw a football during Monday morning’s media-available workout, head coach Ron Rivera did confirm after practice that Newton is indeed throwing ...
There's no way around it. I throw like a girl. Luckily, it's not difficult to avoid situations in which throwing is required, and I've managed to do it successfully my entire adult life. Except that ...