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Delegates from around the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states are convening these days at the 69th World Health Assembly (WHA) to determine the organization’s policies and agree on a proposed budget. Indeed, this is one of the most consequential… Read More ›
In recent Gate’s Foundation Letter, Ms. Gates points to the fact that women perform the majority of the unpaid household work, which leaves them with less or insufficient time i.e., time poverty, to do paid work that may invariably advance… Read More ›
Even the financially responsible among us can get a little uncomfortable at sharing our credit scores with strangers. Our financial histories can feel really personal, sometimes embarrassing, and basically none of your beeswax unless you are a bank offering me… Read More ›
The tragic misogynist massacre by a mentally unstable young man in Santa Barbara last week and the #YesAllWomen response has spurred a public discussion the big and small ways that women experience violence. The violence and risk of violence women… Read More ›
An interesting article by John Tozzi of Businessweek, based off a report from TriNet, was published a couple months ago, showing salary gaps in the technology sector between male and female workers in metropolitan areas of New York City and San Francisco. What was… Read More ›
Here at Lady Economist, I am lucky to be doing work that, for the most part, I love (some days more than others). Being a graduate student and a blogger is a privilege that gives me a sense of self-worth… Read More ›
A Woman’s Nation has released its third in a series of Shriver Reports, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, in partnership with the Center for American Progress. The report investigates the lives of millions of American women who… Read More ›
The Atlantic recently published a fascinating review of the whitest jobs in the U.S. in the graph below, following up on their broader discussion of workforce stratification by race from last week. The labor force overall is 81% white, but… Read More ›
If you are looking for a rage anuerism, I recommend a new piece of crap over at Huffington Post by Wait But Why about why Gen Y’ers should stop complaining and accept the decreased quality of life associated with stagnating compensation… Read More ›
We all saw the NY Times piece on the Harvard Business School and its frat house, misogynist atmosphere. Now the Times is running a piece saying the class divide among the students is even more of a problem. Doesn’t gender and class… Read More ›
The Daily Show really did a perfect job explaining the political economy of low-wage fast food workers in this clip with John Oliver. Watch, enjoy, get appropriately dismayed at the culture of low-wage work in this country.
That income level of a country is an important determinant of its health outcome is now accepted as a stylized fact. Generally, the trends in average levels of health indicators are more encouraging for rich countries than they are for… Read More ›
A new report, What Families Need to Get By: The 2013 Update of EPI’s Family Budget Calculator, from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) demonstrates that it is nearly impossible for minimum-wage workers to meet basic family needs. The real costs… Read More ›
A new report “Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?,” from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) describes the stagnation and decline in black labor market-outcomes since the end of the 1970s. According to the report, the poor… Read More ›
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