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Farmers Markets and Home Births Are So Progressive, They’re Conservative

Dec 11, 2012

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in Gender and Sex, Politics, Sociology, Trends: Social

Atlantic: Farmers Markets and Home Births Are So Progressive, They're Conservative All-natural domesticity has adherents on both sides of the political spectrum. The current cultural mania for DIY domesticity—backyard chickens, urban knitting circles, the rise of homeschooling, the sudden ubiquity of homemade jam—shows no sign of abating. Across the country, progressives are embracing home and…

Saturday Links

Nov 3, 2012

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in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, Christian Life, Culture, Economics, Gender and Sex, Generations, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Theology, Vocation

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…

Behind Every Great Woman

Jan 9, 2012

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in Business, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

BusinessWeek: Behind Every Great Woman As more women earn high-level corporate roles, more husbands are staying home, raising the kids, and changing the rules. … This role reversal is occurring more and more as women edge past men at work. Women now fill a majority of jobs in the U.S., including 51.4 percent of managerial and…

Men, women flip the script in gender expectation

Feb 3, 2011

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in Gender and Sex, Generations, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

USA Today: Men, women flip the script in gender expectation A new portrait of single Americans, drawn from a major new survey, suggests the attitudes and behaviors of today's singles are quite unlike their counterparts just a few decades ago. Findings show men are more interested in love, marriage and children than their peers in…

Garment Factories, Changing Women’s Roles in Poor Countries

Jul 22, 2010

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in Asia, Demography, Economic Development, Education, Gender and Sex, Globalization, Poverty

New York Times – Economix: Garment Factories, Changing Women’s Roles in Poor Countries While visiting garment factories in Bangladesh on assignment recently, I met young women who had migrated from villages to the city in search of jobs that they needed to support their families back home. It is a fairly standard story in this…

Graduating From Lip Smackers (Tweens and Cosmetics)

Apr 29, 2010

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in Gender and Sex, Sociology, Trends: Social

New York Times: Graduating From Lip Smackers IT began for Alyssa Pometta, as these habits so often do, with the soft stuff. We are talking, of course, about lip gloss. She began wearing it in fourth grade — Bonne Bell’s Lip Smackers, a girl’s rite of passage — after years of wearing ChapStick and pretending…

Tag: gender roles

Farmers Markets and Home Births Are So Progressive, They’re Conservative

Saturday Links

Behind Every Great Woman

Men, women flip the script in gender expectation

Garment Factories, Changing Women’s Roles in Poor Countries

Graduating From Lip Smackers (Tweens and Cosmetics)