Recently, The Economist ran an article on the emergence of feminism within management theory:
But some of today’s most influential feminists contend that women will never fulfill their potential if they play by men’s rules. According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland, two of the most prominent exponents of this position, it is not enough to [...]
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Young adult and chick lit writer Meg Cabot recently spoke about her views of feminism with the Miami Herald. A few years ago, I loved Cabot’s writing. The Boy Next Door is entirely written in e-mails. It was fresh and clever.
She got a bit preachy in Princess Diaries, which was quite different from the Disney [...]
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Our society just can’t seem to get it.
For hundreds of years, we primarily educated boys. Then a bunch of women burned err tossed their bras into a trashcan, and we shifted gears. Can’t we try to educate our children equally?
Charlotte Allen at Minding the Campus has an excellent post on the problem of feminizing our [...]
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Tags: boys, college, Education, education gap, STEM
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