Tag Archives: Economics
Quick hit: New Catalyst study finds that women do ask
TweetBut they don’t get. At least, not at the same rates as men do. Two researchers from Catalyst, a research and consulting organization that aims to make workplaces more diverse and equitable, are writing a series for the Washington Post about gender inequity in the workplace. Their first article features research from a new Catalyst [...]
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The Story of Broke
Tweet From the makers of the infamous Story of Stuff illustrated video comes a new installment that explains, in really basic terms, the reality behind the rhetoric that the US has no money. It’s rhetoric, as they point out, that’s being used to justify all sorts of politically motivated cuts to public funds and services–most [...]
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The feminine mistake of blogging unsustainably
TweetI had the pleasure of speaking to a group of veteran feminists in Santa Fe while I was visiting my parents. Many of them had heard of Feministing, and had minimal familiarity with the blogosphere in general, but few of them really understood the ways in which our blog and others function to analyze the [...]
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Quick hit: Ending sexual stigma through economic prosperity
TweetThe New York Times has an article today on the efforts of one Vietnamese woman to end the stigma and ostracism associated with sex work in her small and impoverished village. In Vang Thi Mai’s village, women have been systematically abducted and trafficked across the border into China to do sex work, and when they [...]
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Time Magazine predicts women as “The Richer Sex”, but is this old news for black women?