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Humanitarian Crisis: Please Donate
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 … Click to read more…
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Dan Abrams on Why Women Are Better Than Men
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 … Click to read more…
So, I’m from…Mars?
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 … Click to read more…
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The Wage Gap by Industry
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released a chart of women’s earnings and employment by industry c. 2009. Women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median weekly earnings of $657 that year, which represented 80 … Click to read more…
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When It Comes to Education, Men Are Getting Schooled
For the first time in American history there are now a million more female college graduates than male. As recently as 2000 it was the opposite: There were a million more men than women with a bachelor’s or graduate degree.
Prosumers in E-Love
There’s a certain set of consumers who don’t just passively consume goods and services; they proactively seek them out, help to produce them and help to propagate them. Alvin Toffler coined the term Prosumers in his 1980 book The Third … Click to read more…
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Gender Shift: The Millennial Generation
You read the white paper, now check out the presentation. Euro RSCG presents its multimarket Gender Shift study, examining the new realities of men and women in the so-called “postfeminist” era.
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Gender and VW’s “The Force”
Volkswagen’s “The Force” aired during the Super Bowl last night and has stirred up some gender debate. Is it a boy? A girl? Watch and see what you think. Gwen Sharp, a professor at Nevada State College, offers some interesting … Click to read more…
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Where Are the Women of Wikipedia?
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people add information, correct mistakes, and/or create new pages on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Yet surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of Wikipedia’s contributors are women. The Wikipedia Foundation has set a goal … Click to read more…
