(Not that I ever would, given the title of the site… )
I love this…Leymah Gbowee of Liberia seems to have figured out the power of incentives better than most corporate executives ever will- she, among other things, organized a sex strike in Liberia in which Liberian women refuse to sleep with their [...]
Tags: Gender · Incentives
I think I might be the only person to use my Tivo for the express purpose of watching commercials rather than skipping them. It’s my version of stopping to smell the roses, really…and if I hadn’t stopped, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon the following advertisement from T-Mobile, which really did speak to me (video [...]
Tags: Advertising · Discrimination · Gender · Just For Fun
Sometimes the posts write themselves, really. From a Facebook reader:
“I was totally surprised to see a girl pic when I got to this page! I came across your writing today for the first time and after a few articles I imagined a dude writing them… I guess that just shows how some people (maybe [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Discrimination · Gender
(For the record, I might have had to look up how to spell likable…even dictionary.com wasn’t clear on the matter, but, since for “likeable” it just said “see likable”, I went with the latter.)
So we all probably remember how Larry Summers got himself in trouble at Harvard for reporting on academic hypotheses and findings that [...]
A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper:
Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
“Why aren’t there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to obtain a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and comprise only 25 percent of the STEM [...]
Tags: Gender