Tag Archives: Economics
New study confirms that women give more money than men
TweetWhen you hear the word “philanthropist,” what do you imagine? Probably a person sort of like this: Isn’t that picture of Bill Gates amazingly silly? In fact, you would be more accurate to imagine a person like this: Those are some women protesting with the Domestic Workers United. Here’s the deal: The Women’s Philanthropy Institute [...]
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“I want to tell them that it’s okay to use contraception, but the Church says no.”
TweetAt Nicholas Kristof’s blog On the Ground, Amy Ernst writes about the connection between contraception, poverty, religion, women’s rights and health in Congo. Ernst is an American, and is in Congo working for an organization called COPERMA, which helps survivors of rape and war. In this post, she warns that while Congo’s HIV/AIDS rates are [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Superconnect
TweetIt’s not often that I read business books, but sometimes it’s fun to dabble in the master’s tools for a moment. Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links is filled with examples of the ways in which relationships make the world go round. It’s a feminist kind of wisdom, really, [...]
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The beating heart of the economy
TweetHer Blueprint, the blog of the International Museum of Women, has a really interesting post, and related podcast, about economics and language. Feminist economist Nancy Folbre argues that the language–liquidity, evasion, and safety net, oh my–we’ve been using to describe our economy are, perhaps, part of why it’s been ailing so badly. Most dangerous are [...]
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Guest Post: Gender Neutral Financial Security