New Orleans What is going on these days? Seems like everywhere we turn there are attacks on women in what seems a backlash against the self-satisfied progress we had hoped we were making. The International Labor Organization finds that there is no country where women have achieved pay equity with men. This includes even …
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Is Demographics Destiny in a Democracy?
New Orleans On a radio interview I conducted on Friday discussing the impact of the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions, the young man poignantly spoke about the isolation of young homosexuals in rural areas, compared to the relative freedom in the cities, even conservative cities. I then noticed a map in the Wall Street Journal …
More Hours, More Availability, More Production, and More Labor Standards
New Orleans Susan Lambert, a University of Chicago professor, offers a series of intriguing arguments in an op-ed piece in the Times about work, women, hours, and flexibility some of which are compelling and all of which are interesting, even if less certain than she argues. To state her case plainly, she believes that people, women …