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Studies Should Separate Out Career-Oriented Women
Tweet Share on Facebook April 7, 2008 Comment (2)Will they ever stop? The studies, I mean—studies showing no matter how far women advance on the equity scale, we're still as a gender more domestic and less career oriented than men.
The latest version was released by University of Michigan researchers late last week:
"Having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, tying the knot saves an hour of weekly chores."
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Obama's 'Sweetie' Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2008 Comment (88)If the media truly are not more gender than race biased, then Barack Obama's remarks on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania this week should get as much coverage as Hillary Clinton's remark about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson.
While flirting with female factory workers in Allentown, he called one "sweetie," a paternalistic way to address a woman if there ever was one. It might have worked had he been trying to do his best imitation of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine, the telephone operator, but this was no spoof. This was Obama trying to relate to working-class women in a way that went directly south.
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The Numbers in Hillary's Favor
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2008 CommentHere's a statement you're hearing all over the place: One of the Democratic presidential candidates should drop out of the race. Here's a suggestion you'll hear nowhere else: Why shouldn't that person be Barack Obama?
Before the sky collapses on top of me under the weight of livid Obama supporters, let me explain. I'm not suggesting Obama drop out. I am instead making the point that spinning the math in Hillary Clinton's favor is just about as plausible as spinning it in Obama's favor. Most media outlets have done the former while giving nothing like equal time to the latter.
