In yesterday’s Washington Post, Ruth Marcus discusses gender politics in the U.S. and what she sees as females shying away from leadership positions, beginning at the college level. She cites a Princeton study that found a tendency among women to undersell themselves and make self-deprecating remarks. Women, the report said, are more reticent about speaking up, where men tend “to raise their hands and express their thoughts even before they are fully formulated.”
It’s well worth a read.
Male Mob at Macworld
Fortune magazine’s top corporations are mostly old-economy stalwarts: oil companies, banks, and retailers. But the products, corporations, and leaders that fire the imaginations of men these days are in technology—especially now that investment banking is in disgrace. Technology is the new frontier.
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An absolutely fascinating piece from blog The Achilles Effect looks at how the vocabulary of toy advertising reinforces gender stereotypes. A sneak preview:
Most commonly used words in toy advertising for boys:
Financial News’s fourth annual Women in Finance survey, published this week, showed that while momentum is building in the fight against gender imbalance in the workplace, familiar obstacles remain.
Is your company looking to redress inequality and encourage women in the workplace? If so, click here for your 10-point to-do list.
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Arab women, long stereotyped as submissive and uninvolved in politics, have been playing a vital role in uprisings around the Middle East, taking part in street protests and demanding reform. In Libya, Iman Bugaighis has even assumed the role of spokesperson for the Provisional Transitional National Council.
How will these uprisings affect the role of women going forward? And what has been the reality of women’s political and social activism until now?
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The Critic Sees by Jasper Johns
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is asking for immediate help in providing emergency aid to tens of thousands of people fleeing into Tunisia and Egypt to escape the violence in Libya. More than 170,000 men, women, and children have already crossed the border.
The Egyptian government has repatriated tens of thousands of its own nationals. Egypt, Tunisia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom have offered air or sea transport, and other nations have offered funds for the UNHCR response to the Libya crisis. Private donations have also been coming in—but the need is outpacing available funds and supplies. Particularly acute is the shortage of medical professionals in the region, with the majority of foreign medical staff having been evacuated. There is concern that fuel will start to run out within the next two weeks, with food shortages also anticipated.
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by Kate Fridkis on MyDaily
Women are better than men. At least that’s what media mogul and ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams argues in his new book, Man Down. According to plenty of research, Abrams reports, women are better at everything from managing hedge funds to avoiding getting struck by lightning. (Let’s face it–you definitely won’t be in any condition to manage billions of dollars if the lightning gets you first.)
Women are better cops, better doctors, better drivers and better at dealing with painful breakups. That guy who shrugs and says, “Whatever. I’ll just hook up with her friend”? He’s definitely bawling his eyes out every night. But women aren’t just emotionally savvy, they’re technologically tuned in. His ex could beat that guy at every video game he owned. Which is another reason why he’s crying.
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I’ve never been told I throw like a girl, but apparently I write like a man. At least according to the Gender Genie calculator on Bookblog. Inspired by an article and a test in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author.
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