life:
“Saucy Feminist That Even Men Like” — May 7, 1971 issue of LIFE.
Well, okay. What a headline, LIFE.
Is this real?!
Shocker: Working women more likely to have babies when they know partners will help out
More optimism about future fertility and family formation can also be drawn from the relationship between fertility on the one hand and female labour market participation on the other. Within the high-income countries, that relationship has changed markedly over the last 40 years. In the 1960s and even 1970s fertility rates and women’s labour market participation rates were negatively correlated across countries. In the most recent data, the two rates are positively correlated.
[There is an interesting male counterpart to this same relationship: Demographers have established a positive correlation between men‟s employment and fertility in some Western societies, suggesting that the inclusion of men and/or fathers may lead to a better understanding of fertility and family dynamics.]
One tentative explanation put forward for this is that there are three distinct phases in women‟s status generated by increased workforce opportunities:
1) an early phase that is characteristic of the United States in the 1950s/1960s, in which women earn low wages relative to men and are expected to shoulder all the child care at home;
2) an intermediate phase in which labour market opportunities for women improve but household status lags (i.e. they are still expected to do majority of child care and home production) and which corresponds broadly to the situation today in Japan, Italy, Spain, Germany, for example;
3) a final phase in which women‟s labour market opportunities begin to equal those of men, and in which increased participation of men in the household reduces the disincentives for women to have additional children – this corresponds roughly to the situation these days in Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, and the modern-day United States. [It is interesting to note that in high-income countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain and Germany where men do the smallest fraction of the household chores and child care, fertility rates are among the lowest.]
The hypothesis therefore is that increasing women’s status may eventually reverse fertility trends in Europe and Japan, notably where fertility rates are very low. In particular, men in all high-income countries appear to be taking on a larger share of household duties, which could lead to a large positive impact on fertility. Moreover, government spending on families (especially day care) which is positively associated with fertility, appears to be trending upwards in European countries.
- OECD Report: The Future of the Family in 2030 (OECD International Futures Programme)
![“In Sri Lanka in 2001, while covering the conflict between government forces and the rebel Tamil Tigers, Marie was struck by shrapnel. Undaunted by the loss of her left eye, she wore a black eye-patch from then on, which became something of a trademark. When I interviewed her shortly afterwards, she told me how she had walked 30 miles through jungle with her Tamil guides to evade government troops, an example of the effort she put into her work.
It was after the loss of her eye that she spelled out her reason for covering wars. She wrote of the importance of telling people what really happens and about “humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable”. She continued: “My job is to bear witness. I have never been interested in knowing what make of plane had just bombed a village or whether the artillery that fired at it was 120mm or 155mm.” She wrote about people so that others might understand the truth.
Marie sometimes did more than merely write. In 1999, in East Timor, she was credited with saving the lives of 1,500 women and children who were besieged in a compound by Indonesian-backed forces. She refused to leave them, waving goodbye to 22 journalist colleagues as she stayed on with an unarmed UN force in order to help highlight their plight by reporting to the world, in her paper and on global television. The publicity was rewarded when they were evacuated to safety after four tense days.
This was the essence of Marie’s approach to reporting. She was not interested in the politics, strategy or weaponry; only the effects on the people she regarded as innocents.” [via The Guardian]
Photo from Reuters](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztg5pjBpn1qa1h4so1_r1_1280.jpg)
“In Sri Lanka in 2001, while covering the conflict between government forces and the rebel Tamil Tigers, Marie was struck by shrapnel. Undaunted by the loss of her left eye, she wore a black eye-patch from then on, which became something of a trademark. When I interviewed her shortly afterwards, she told me how she had walked 30 miles through jungle with her Tamil guides to evade government troops, an example of the effort she put into her work.
It was after the loss of her eye that she spelled out her reason for covering wars. She wrote of the importance of telling people what really happens and about “humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable”. She continued: “My job is to bear witness. I have never been interested in knowing what make of plane had just bombed a village or whether the artillery that fired at it was 120mm or 155mm.” She wrote about people so that others might understand the truth.
Marie sometimes did more than merely write. In 1999, in East Timor, she was credited with saving the lives of 1,500 women and children who were besieged in a compound by Indonesian-backed forces. She refused to leave them, waving goodbye to 22 journalist colleagues as she stayed on with an unarmed UN force in order to help highlight their plight by reporting to the world, in her paper and on global television. The publicity was rewarded when they were evacuated to safety after four tense days.
This was the essence of Marie’s approach to reporting. She was not interested in the politics, strategy or weaponry; only the effects on the people she regarded as innocents.” [via The Guardian]
Photo from Reuters
This 8-year-old guitarist is too cool. And as someone who tried and completely failed to pick up/get interested in actually practicing a guitar, I’m totally jealous.
By A Nearly 2 To 1 Margin, Cable Networks Call On Men Over Women To Comment On Birth Control — ThinkProgress.
If we don’t keep pointing this out, they’ll keep on not noticing themselves doing it.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
This is so great! An old satirical cartoon about the scandalous new ladies who were riding velocipedes down the street in *gasp* PANTS and the kinds of insane breakdowns of society that these pants-wearing velocipedettes would lead to. Only now, thanks to over a hundred years of progress, all the girls look unintentionally cool.
Via Hark a Vagrant
“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’”
Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)
(Name droppy brag - I’m sorry: I’ve actually met Sarah Weddington, who became at 26 one of the youngest people to ever win a court case before the Supreme Court for Roe v. Wade. Besides being awesome, she was also super friendly).
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When Ellie Cachette started pitching her tech start-up to West Coast investors two years ago, she expected to raise big bucks. Instead, all she got from the roughly 25 all-male investors she met with were dismissive looks and patronizing advice.
“I wouldn’t even finish my sentence, and they’d say I should be a nonprofit,” said Cachette, now 26, who was building a startup designed to help companies manage product recalls. “I found it impossible to raise money.”
So Cachette made a bold decision: She headed to New York to test the waters of the city’s burgeoning tech scene. The gamble paid off handsomely. Within seven months, Cachette had raised $200,000 from eight investors, garnered features in two top business magazines and was selected to ring the NASDAQ’s opening bell.
“The tech scene in New York is just a lot more female friendly,” said Cachette, CEO of ConsumerBell. “You actually have a fair chance here. Investors are willing to look past your gender.” New York is quickly establishing itself as the place to be for women seeking to launch tech startups, experts say.
”The New York Daily News, “Female Entrepreneurs Find Funding, Community In New York” (via inothernews)
Huh. Food for thought should I ever go back to the States to pursue some sort of tech thingy.
Woah. Granted, I haven’t finished Julie Klausner’s book yet or anything, but did she really just compare going on a date with a shitty indie guy to genital mutilation? Sucks that a lame website with an incompetent writer didn’t like your book, but c’mon now.
(Source: julieklausner)
STOP TELLING ME TO ‘CHECK MY PRIVILEGE’ AND LISTEN TO WHAT I’M SAYING! WE’RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SOLIDARITY AS WOMEN! IT’S THIS KIND OF PETTY INFIGHTING AMONGST POCS AND WHITES THAT PREVENTS US FROM MAKING PROGRESS IN THE FACE OF GENDER-SPECIFIC INSTITUTIONAL OPPRESSION! WE CAN’T WORRY ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT RACES EXPERIENCE THE TYRANNY OF THE PATRIARCHY! OUR OPINIONS AND SUFFERING ARE DIFFERENT BUT THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY VALID! IT’S ONLY MEN’S OPINIONS THAT DON’T MATTER! YOU HAVE TO SEE THAT!
Moar animals talking in all caps!
