Tag: economics
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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Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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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.
Tags: achievement, article, assignments, awards, career, citation, committees, competence, difference, distinctions, economics, economy, equality, experiment, faculty, female, female faculty, flexibility, gender, gender equality, gender roles, glass ceiling, grants, innate differences, journals, lab space, Larry Summers, lead author, male dominated fields, MIT, nature, obama effect, objective measure, pay, performance, progress, publications, rationality, Research, research grants, salary, science, scientific fields, scientific studies, self-perception, sex, sex differences, space, status, studies, study, teaching assignments, wage, wages, women, work, workforce
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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.
Tags: American, association, compensation, conservative, construction work, discrimination, economics, economist, economists, female fields, feminine, feminine mystique, gap, gender, inequality, intangibility, intangible, interpersonal, interpersonal skills, job, jobs, mechanics, nursing, pay, paycheck, plumbers, professionals, professions, psychology, sexism, social work, teaching, University, wage, wages, women, workforce
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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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Why Obama, Volume One: 10,000-year war "fine" by McCain
I think that Americans are best represented by Obama for several reasons: 1. He does not support a continuation of the foreign policy that created the War Against Afghanistan or the War Against Iraq. 2. He does not, as McCain does, state that the military should be making foreign policy decisions and suggest that it [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2008 under 100 years, Civil Rights, Iraq War, afghanistan, election, iraq, mccain, obama, presidency, president, presidential candidate, war.
Tags: 100 years, 100%, 1000, 10000, afghanistan, candidate, Civil Rights, domestic policy, economics, economy, election, foreign policy, iraq, mccain, middle east, obama, politics, power, president, presidential, republican, republicans, right to bear arms, Supreme Court, the wire, Vietnam, war, WMD, years
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