Due to popular demand, I’ve done my best to boil the wage gap down to one post on Feministe. Check it out - I expect a lively comment thread, as always.
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I’m still guest blogging at Feministe. It’s great fun - Feministe is a much higher traffic site than my own, and the intellectual level of comments has been very high. If you haven’t already, check out my introduction, a post about women and the US soon-to-be recession, a few definitions of economics, and from today, [...]
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Turns out my calendar was incorrect, and my Feministe guest posts start today. That means blogging over here will be light for the next two weeks, but I will throw up some teasers to lure you to Feministe. From the questions and suggestions that have been posted so far, I may be covering some familiar [...]
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I’m currently preparing for a guest posting stint over at Feministe, which will start in about a week. I’m planning to make a series of posts about why women, and feminists, should care about economics. I’ve got lots of ideas of my own, but since this blog’s audience is often pretty skewed towards the econ [...]
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…to inform me that “Firefox has blocked two pop-ups”, am I the only one who reaches absently for a “thank you” button?
Economic Woman has gone (mostly) quiet in honour of midterms, which will wrap up on Wednesday.
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Pride in Toronto is a pretty big deal, spread out over more than a week and apparently involving a million people. Today I marched, and checked out Mariko Tamaki, the fabulous Ember Swift, uh huh her and The Hidden Cameras.
The organizing committee brings in great entertainment, and it’s all free. A lot of [...]
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Feministe has a link round up on women and work. The Times has a number of recent articles on similar topics: here are some strangely context-free statistics on the wage gap. I think it was supposed to be a sidebar for this article, about a the Equalities Bill. I’m no expert, but that Bill seems [...]
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Jessica Wakeman writes about women on Wall Street as two high-profile female executives are fired. Despite the negative headline, it’s kind of a good news/bad news story. The bad:
They may make up 46% of the workforce, but women held only 15.4% of Fortune 500 corporate officer positions in 2007… According to Gail Evans, former [...]
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In case you’ve missed it, Kathy of The G Spot has a post up on The American Prospect’s Tapped about the economics of paid family leave. I haven’t had a chance to go over it in detail, but it looks exhaustive and interesting.
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This is my third post in response to a single post from weeks ago, but bear with me - I have three unrelated thoughts. In a reaction to this blog and feminist economics generally, Peter Boettke articulates a common reaction to identity politics:
Women, like men, let alone minorities, should not accept any artificial barriers to [...]
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In the Austrian Economists post that I just linked to, Peter Boettke eventually concludes: “economics and feminism do not collide.” My tagline has attracted a fair amount of attention, as was intended, I suppose. So I’d like to say that I roughly agree with Boettke on this one.
If I thought that the discipline of economics [...]
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Here’s something I’ve been meaning to link to for awhile. Last month, The Austrian Economists’ Peter Boettke linked to this site with some friendly, if sceptical, thoughts on feminist economics:
I ask “don’t demand curves slope downward regardless of gender or sexual orientation?” For example, hasn’t there been significant studies over the years that have [...]
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Readers want there to be a new post every time they click over to the site. Otherwise, their bandwidth, time and mouse clicks have been wasted. If they frequently find no new material, they will eventually stop coming back.
Bloggers, for whatever reason, want their readers to come back, but bloggers’ time, relevant material [...]
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When economists see a division of labour, they are likely to assume that it is a mutually beneficial arrangement, unless there is evidence to the contrary. When it comes to the division of labour at home - who goes to work, who takes on childcare and housework - feminists are apt to assume that an [...]
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This has been all over the internet so I don’t remember where I first saw it, but I’ve been having fun playing with Walk Score. This little tool can take any address, use Google to search for services and entertainment nearby, and come up with a score from zero to 100 that roughly reflects how [...]
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