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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.
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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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Brother, Can You Spare A Dime: Economics of Gender Inequality, Pt.2
II. The Myth of the Feminine Mystique Conservative economists like Chapman argue that women generally have chosen to enter fields that pay less, but that’s another way of saying that we don’t regard female-dominated fields such as teaching, nursing, psychology, and social work as professional domains worthy of significant compensation. These fields are often dismissed [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2009 under discrimination, gender, gender bias, gender differences, gender equality, gender power, gender roles, pay, work.
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Equality: Not Satanism, Last I Checked
Recently I stumbled upon this website run by that beacon of truth and goodness, the Christian Right. In fine form, they announced at the beginning of the page, “FEMINISM IS EVIL! Beware of the feminists, many are LESBIANS!” Ah, yes, such tolerance and open mindedness is exactly what we have been taught to expect from [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Christianity, God, Satanic, Sex Roles, christian, female empowerment, female leader, female misogyny, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminist academics, feminist theory, feminists, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender socialization, gender theory, religion, religious, religious extremists, science and gender, sex, unempowered.
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Male Answer Syndrome & Homeland Insecurity: Smells Like Bullshit
In high school, I was once asked to read this article about Male Answer Syndrome. Here’s an excerpt I just found online: It is called `Male Answer Syndrome: Why Men always have opinions, even on subjects they know nothing about’ — by Jane Campbell (from Utne Reader, Jan/Feb 1992) “In the animal kingdom, males exhibit [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Sex Roles, absurdity, blogger, differences, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, male, male gaze, male perspective, male worldview, modern life, offensive, self image, self-advocacy, self-esteem, sex, sexism, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, sexual relations, sexual subordination.
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I Was A Teenage Feminist…
Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Angier, E-Z Bake Oven, Natalie, National Institutes of Health, Woman: An Intimate Geography, biology, chemical, college, default, department, discrimination, education, english, equality, evolutionary, female, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender equality, genetic, genetics, hormone, institution, interdisciplinary, major, male, objective, objectivity, old boys, organismic, professor, reproduction, reproductive system, sociobiologists, sociobiology, sociology, student, syllabus, testes, women's health, zygote.
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Rational Woman/My Philosophy by KRS-ONE: Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -Albert Ellis (Ironic Curtsy: Irrational Woman) In her essay “Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism,” Elizabeth Grosz writes of the problematic implication of “patriarchal frameworks, methods, and presumptions” in contemporary feminist theory and rhetoric.
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Grosz, Emile Durkheim, KRS-ONE, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody, My Philosophy, Paris Hilton, Randall Collins, Sex Roles, Smurfette, agency, biologism, biology, bodies, economics, emotion, femininity, feminism, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender bias, gender roles, identity, irrationality, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, sex, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, society, sociology, theory, trust.
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