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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Terrorist Fist Jab vs. Chest Bump: Fox News Shoots Itself In the Foot

To the left, we see Anna Kournikova and George H. W. Bush giving each other a gesture of mutual “greeting, departure, or respect,” known as “the pound”. Yet when Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama reproduce the same gesture, Fox News calls it a “terrorist fist jab” (see video after the jump). Fox also [...]

The Sexual Paradox: Or, Women are from School, Men are from Work

In this recent article from the New York Times about Susan Pinker’s new book, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, Emily Bazelon writes, “In her zeal, Pinker veers to the onesided. She doesn’t acknowledge that some of the research cited in her footnotes is either highly questionable as social science (Louise [...]