How To Make Help-Wanted Ads Disappear

September 28, 2011

The latest stimulus bill won’t do much to reduce unemployment, but it can still help you – if you are a lawyer or headhunter.

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An Unequal Price For Equality

March 8, 2011

Europeans are about to pay an unequal price for equality. On March 1, Europe’s top court banned insurance companies from basing premiums on gender. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Redding called the decision “an important step towards putting the fundamental right of gender equality into practice.” The court labeled gender-differentiated premiums discriminatory in a case originally brought by Test-Achats, a Belgian consumer group. While it’s admirable that the EU has recently …

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Mad Men, And Women With Reason To Be

December 23, 2010

Like many people, I count AMC’s “Mad Men” among my favorite television shows. Unlike many of the show’s critics, I do not find it to be sexist. In a thought-provoking article in The Washington Post, historian Stephanie Coontz praises “Mad Men” as “quite simply, one of the most historically accurate television series ever produced.” Coontz addresses complaints from viewers who say the boorish behavior of the show’s men and the …

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Defining Progress For Women (And Everyone Else)

November 4, 2009

In a recent New York Times opinion column, Joanne Lipman, former deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal and founding editor of Portfolio magazine, tells us women’s progress in the workplace has come to a screeching halt and attitudes “have taken a giant leap backward.” This startled me. I thought things were going pretty well. Lipman cites familiar statistics. Women earn just 77 cents for each dollar earned by …

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Barring The Doors To Minorities

October 29, 2009

Regis Murayi, 21, spent weeks organizing his college’s senior class trip to Chicago. As class treasurer, he talked to representatives of the Original Mother’s bar to negotiate a $25 per person all-you-can-drink package for the group. But, when the big night came, Murayi was not allowed into the bar. Of the approximately 200 students from Washington University in St. Louis who went on the trip, six were refused entry to …

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