Fairness and equality
![A family of four smiling and sitting in a red convertible car parked outside a house with green lawn.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/b28bc9bc-1bdc-43e5-bb18-bc72a64c6b4f/rt-gettyimages-563943741.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Gender
idea
In more prosperous societies, are men and women more similar?
How much the sexes differ psychologically depends on how fair and wealthy a country is. But not in the way you’d think
by Kåre Hedebrant & Agneta Herlitz
![Child wearing a blue gingham school uniform with yellow achievement badges reading “Great Homework,” “Well Done!” and featuring symbols like a star and thumbs up.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/bee7d3ae-232c-472c-bddd-578e6db3d28c/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Fairness and equality
idea
Teaching self-confidence can backfire and perpetuate inequality
It’s true that self-confidence is beneficial, but the way in which it’s often taught is misguided and can be harmful
by Eddie Brummelman & Kelly Ziemer
![A blurred person walks past a large poster of a woman with long blonde hair and glossy lips.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/6022f05c-af96-421e-a28c-f445b0e5e440/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Change and self-development
idea
The cult of being confident and why it doesn’t help women
By making women solely responsible for their own empowerment, the culture of confidence masks the true causes of inequality
by Rosalind Gill & Shani Orgad
![Two men wearing hats, seated on a kerb, engaged in conversation. One is in overalls, the other in a short-sleeve shirt with suspenders. Background shows a brick building.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/56414eeb-8d81-4361-9f06-15445324b03d/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Civic life
idea
The power of Langston Hughes’s ‘melancholy citizenship’
Langston Hughes’s poetry offers a guide to the sort of melancholy citizenship that can help us weather democratic heartbreak
by Robert L Tsai
![Futuristic cityscape with futuristic buildings and structures, featuring a group of people on a hill during sunset, with flowers in the foreground.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/10b6c434-488d-42d8-9c39-bf1af91eda6d/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Human evolution
idea
Let everyone sparkle: psychotechnology in the year 2067
In the year 2067, the decorations are not the only things that sparkle. We ourselves glow and fizz with psychotechnology
by Eric Schwitzgebel
![A young girl in a red coat holds her mother’s hand while glancing into crates and boxes containing goods in a food bank.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/bd132127-c7c2-4f5e-a817-7e9a7f99eee6/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Socioeconomics of mental health
idea
Why we shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
Living in poverty is not caused by a faulty mindset, it’s a response to scarcity and marginalisation
by Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington