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Christian Right Wants Less Liberty for Women, More Crime?
Sometimes, the left wing doesn’t know what the right wing is doing. Unfortunately, the long-awaited passage of health care reform leaves us with little to crow about. Bart Stupak’s amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions is a shocking attack on women on welfare. What’s [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2009 under abortion, crime, economics, health care, women's health, women's rights.
Tags: abortion, burt stupak, children, choice, christian right, christina page, crime, economics, family, Freakonomics, freedom, health, health care, insurance, kevin drum, life, mother jones, politics, roe v. wade, stem-cell, stephen j. dubner, steven d. leavitt, women's rights
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Economics of Gender Inequality, Pt. IV
IV. Inflexibility of Gender/Pay Relationship Transgender pay differences reflect gender pay differences. Last October, Andrew Sullivan pointed to research that “found that women who become men (known as FTMs) do significantly better than men who become women (MTFs). MTFs in the study earned, on average, 32% less after they transitioned from male to female, even [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2009 under Congress, Freud, crisis, cross-dressing, discrimination, disempowerment, economics, economy, feminism, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender differences, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, legislation, politics, taboo.
Tags: abigail adams, african-american, aid legislation, anthropology, Baltimore, biological gender, body modification, california, castration, childhood, david harvey, difference, discrimination, economic analysis, education, female circumcision, feminism, feminists, financial crisis, financial loss, flipping, founding father, Freud, FTM, gender, gender bias, gender difference, gender equality, gender roles, genital cutting, geography, home ownership, identity, identity politics, income, john quincy adams, katrina, layoffs, legislation, lesbian, low-income, Manhater, median, mortgage, MTF, n+1, pay, policy, senate compromise, single mothers, socialization, speculation, study, taboo, taboos, transition, wages
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Plan B: A Welcome "Miscarriage" of Justice
According to the New York Times, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Plan B (levonorgestrel), will be made available over the counter to women who are seventeen or older. The judge, Edward R. Korman, a Reagan-appointee, stated that there had been “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications” on the part of the F.D.A. The NYT [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under FDA, a woman's right to choose, birth, birth control, contraception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, economics, egg, pro life, pro-choice, reproductive rights, war, women's health, women's rights, zygote.
Tags: abortion, casualties, children, choice, civilians, conception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, criminal, embryo, FDA, implantation, integrity, Iraq War, iraqi, minor, minors, miscarriage, mothers, pill, plan b, pro life, reproductive rights, susan wood, trimester, u.s. troops, unwanted babies, unwanted baby, women's rights, world population, zygote
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Economics of Gender Inequality, Part 3
III. The Myth of the Broken Glass Ceiling in the Sciences In 2005, Larry Summers suggested that women might not enter scientific fields as often as men because of “innate differences,” according to this article from the Boston Globe. This infuriated the female scientific community, because scientific studies indicate that women don’t enter male-dominated fields [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under economics, economy, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender equality, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, pay, politics, wage gap, women, women in science, work, working conditions.
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The American Economy: It's a Gas, Gas, Gas…
Again, Obama says it better than most. Because I am in finals, I’m going to turn it over to him. The video is after the jump.
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under America, American, economics, economy, obama.
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Red Eye, and !Ojo para viajeros: la red del disastre!
I was on the red eye to La Paz, Bolivia last night. Perhaps everything was going too well: the previous flight had had free refills and personal tv sets for each passenger and offered me both Before Sunset and I Heart Huckabees in addition to an episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa switch [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Bart Simpson, Before Sunset, Bolivia, Canadian, Cuzco, I Heart Huckabees, La Paz, Lima, Lisa Simpson, Peru, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, TV, Viru Viru, airlines, catholic, economics, free, gender, goody two shoes, horror movie, latino, law, peruvian, professional, punishable offense, race, red eye, refills, risk analyst, sexual harassment, television, the Simpsons, troublemaker, turbulence.
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Notes from an insecure country
Recently, I won some money and decided to visit a friend who is finishing up her semester abroad in Argentina. While, as one mentor of mine in high school put it, “Every woman has a funny relationship with food,” in Argentina, it’s an understatement. Somethingfishy.org, a website about eating disorders, reports that “In Argentina the [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2007 under Argentina, Female Sexuality, Self Objectification, anorexia, armor, bodies, bulimia, catcall, chastity belt, cigarettes, cosmetic surgery, eating disorder, economics, empanada, fat, food, identity, inflation, latin america, lonely planet, machismo, martini, mental health, objectification, physical health, pride, psychology, self acceptance, self-loathing, sex, smoking, south america, standard of beauty, tobacco, women's health.
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