Archive for March, 2009
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Notes on Gender Inequality, Part 1
The New York Times recently published an item about economic gender inequality that’s quite appalling. The report states that “nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job.” It continues, [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2009 under culture, discrimination, disrespect, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual difference, sexual inequality, social class, social inequality, socialization, sociology.
Tags: children, discrimination, disparity, economics, economist, economists, equality, financial success, gap, gender, have it all, having it all, interactive graphic, job, Manhater, marriage, marry, money, pay, paycheck, reproduction, sex, sexism, unfairness, wage
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Obama/Biden: United We Sit on Our Dads?
United we lolcatz? Ah well.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 under obama.
Tags: biden, canihascheeseburger, conflict resolution, interacial, interracial, kids, lolcats, obama, parents, peace
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Class Act: How To Escape from "Class Warfare"
Hat tip to Media Matters for Jamison Foser’s spectacular breakdown of media bias in reporting on Obama’s tax plan. As Foser observes in his piece Asymmetrical Class Warfare, most of the influential reporters crying over the end of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy are also in the wealthiest tax bracket — which will [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2009 under agency, class, hipster, hipsters.
Tags: class war, hipster, lower, middle, middle class, upper, X
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