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by Jordan Kisner I’ve been living in New York City for two months now, and I think I’m about to break down and join a gym. Not because I want to lose weight (though the availability and affordability of New York pizza hasn’t done me any favors there) but because I need an outlet for [...]
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Racial Inequality and the Rhetoric of Responsibility
(originally published at Social Science Lite, x-posted at Postbourgie) Last Spring, Brown University economist Glenn Loury presented at Harvard sociology’s Workshop on Race and Black Youth Culture. He titled his talk “Culture, Causation and Confusion: Why Bill Cosby is Wasting His Time,” engaging with the pervasive “rhetoric of responsibility” frequently applied to blacks in the [...]
...read moreThe Politics of Peeing: Test-driving a Go-Girl
The instant I found out about the newly rebranded female urination device (FUD), Go-Girl, I jumped for joy. The news segment I saw on it (above) made it look great, and the website paints it even better: like a statement of one’s bad-ass independence and sassiness. “Don’t take life sitting down,” the tagline proudly proclaims. [...]
...read moreMore on women and (un)happiness
by Jillian Hewitt I’m not the first to talk about it this week (see Gracie’s post from Monday), but I also want to address the issue of women’s happiness in light of recent media attention. Marcus Buckingham, who himself has written a book titled Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women [...]
...read moreGossip Girl: New Jersey edition
by Kelly Roache This week, it was reported that Millburn High School, well known in New Jersey for its academic and extracurricular excellence, was the center of a particularly ugly hazing of incoming freshmen – that is, ugly enough to cause such a small town to make New York Times headlines. Allegedly, a group of [...]
...read moreA Real-Time Look at the Impact of the Recession on Women’s Family Planning and Pregnancy Decisions
A new Guttmacher report finds that, not surprisingly, the recession has been impacting women’s decisions about birth control and family planning. After months of anecdotal reports, a survey released today provides the first hard evidence of the recession’s impact on women’s contraceptive use and childbearing decisions. Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute found that because of [...]
...read moreHealth Insurance, Unemployment and Bankruptcy
Awhile back*, I posted about my daughter’s premature birth, hospitalization, my concurrent job loss, and…..health insurance. I tried to explain to non-U.S. readers exactly why the loss of a job meant the loss of healthcare and probable bankruptcy. We take that for granted in the U.S.—that in the event of a serious illness like cancer, [...]
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