Commenting on this post, “v” has made a good point about one source of the gender wage gap:
Some say it happens at the negotiation stage. Men are more likely to ask for raises or higher salaries when hired or changing jobs. This trait is attributed mostly to gender and could drive the results.
As it [...]
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I spent a few minutes at WAM chatting with one of the presenters about fathers and feminism. We were talking about the importance of men in the women’s movement generally, and how fathering daughters seems to bring even unlikely men around on women’s issues.
Then I came home and found this study on voting patterns in [...]
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I have been wanting to start this site for some time, but it got a needed kick start at Women, Action and the Media, a conference in Cambridge, MA last weekend. It was fantastic - I picked up some new skills, met some new people, and came home full of words.
Journalism is a scary business [...]
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