A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• Even Batgirl supports the ERA.
• Menstrual huts protect against adultery.
• An update on the man cured from AIDS.
• Shocking information about women and HIV.
• The rise of caregiving fathers and its effects on women.
• The evolutionary benefit of gay men for families.
• Historian, Jim Downs, and the incredible link between emancipation and sickness.
• Why are we debating whether Madonna’s nipples too old?
• Lost in the wilderness? All you need is a tampon to survive.
• Scientists have now mapped all of the microbes on your body.