Category: Gender and Sex
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Divergent Life Expectancies in the U. S.
The Incidental Economist has a post with five graphs on life expectancy in the United States. (Zombie life expectancy arguments) Two stood out to me. First, this chart shows the life expectancy for men in the United States at age 65. The population is split into income quartiles and then compared with other nations. An…
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Saturday Links
Here are this week's odds and ends that didn't make it to the blog. Enjoy the leftovers! 1. MIT Technology Review says Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change. "Using technology to cool the planet may be the only way to deal with the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, argues…
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The Atlantic on Women and Men, From 1859 to Now
The Atlantic: The Atlantic on Women and Men, From 1859 to Now American gender relations have undergone big changes in the last century and a half—and The Atlantic has chronicled some of the major milestones along the way. In the early winter months of 1859, an essay in The Atlantic noted that a subtle yet…
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Incubating women’s businesses in the Palestinian territories
Christian Science Monitor: Incubating women's businesses in the Palestinian territories Tomorrow’s Youth Organization based in Nablus, on the West Bank, helps promising new women's businesses survive. … TYO’s Women’s Incubation Services for Entrepreneurs (WISE) brought back six businesses that had developed a foundation from their initial women’s entrepreneurship program—Fostering Women Entrepreneurs in Nablus, and recruited…
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How the ‘Having It All’ Debate Has Changed Over the Last 30 Years
Atlantic: How the 'Having It All' Debate Has Changed Over the Last 30 Years A new grandmother catches a glimpse of what parenting looks like today. Deborah Fallows spent two weeks with her infant grandson, which caused her to reflect on her own life as a woman trying to navigate what it meant to "have…