Over the last two decades, American workers have increasingly divided into a majority who work too many hours and a minority with no work at all. This split hurts families at both extremes, but I focus here on the growing scarcity of time among the long-hours majority. For many of them, a speedup at the […]
День: 11.10.2015
Changes in Employment after Children
After years of being the last person to leave the office, often carrying armloads of work to finish at home, when women become single mothers they would like to be the first to walk out of the building on time and empty-handed. After years of enjoying employment, many women downsize their jobs in order to […]
How individual women are given more power to kill than the entire U. S. government
Taken together, the twelve female-only defenses allow almost any woman to take it upon herself to exercise the death penalty. Ironically, we now consider it liberal to favor a woman exercising the death penalty and to oppose the goiemment exercising the death penalty. The government is not allowed to kill someone first and declare him […]
Simply invisible
feminist sociology and the malestream T his chapter takes its title from Amanda Cross (1981: 47) and is drawn out of a comment made by her heroine Kate Fransler about her lack of impact on and in Harvard: ‘Because as a woman… she was simply invisible.’ This chapter faces, Janus-like, in two directions. There are […]