Tag Archives: Economy
UK pay gap shrinks, but it’s not all good news
TweetGood news! The pay gap in the UK is shrinking! BBC reports that this year, the pay gap between men and women shrank to 10.2%, the lowest it has ever been since the government began keeping track of it. However, the news isn’t all good. While wages have risen for women on average, women who [...]
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All politics should be this cool
TweetI have a big old lady brain crush on Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and Chair of the Federal Oversight Panel. And I like rap. And I love ponies. Which is why I can not get enough of this video. Tweet
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Is sex equality in the interest of men? Our boy Kristof weighs in.
Tweet In last Wednesday’s op-ed by Nicholas Kristof, he touched on a question that I have thought about for some time now: Is sex equality in the interest of men? Now you’ll remember Kristof for his co-penning of Half the Sky. His work is largely preoccupied with the plight of Non-western women. But every once [...]
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Is female dominance a success for feminism?
Tweet Hanna Rosin, Co-Editor at Double X, has the cover story of this month’s Atlantic Magazine with a piece entitled “The End of Men: How Women are Taking Control–of Everything.” This topic is a familiar one by now, not too far off from the discussions about the “he-cession“–our current recession which has seen 3/4ths of [...]
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Maya and Lori on the “Beached White Male”: Newsweek spews steam out of its blowhole