Gender Equality

choi

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(1) Carrie Lucas, There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap; A study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30 found that women earned 8% more than men. Wall Street Journal, Apr 12, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576250672504707048.html
("Yet if you can accept that the job choices of men and women lead to different unemployment rates, then you shouldn't be surprised by other differences—like differences in average pay")

Note:
(a) The author is a woman.
(b) Carrie is pet form of Caroline.
(c) Summary: income gap between the sexes may be explained by
(i) men spend more time a day on the job;
(ii) choice of occupation.


(2) Max Colchester, For Help With Household Chores, Don't Look to Italy or Portugal. Wall Street Journal, Apr 13, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576258792535619956.html

Note:
(a) Colchester
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester
(b) The report provided a direct link to--ostensibly "OECD report" but actually

Press release: Who’s busiest: working hours and household chores across OECD. OECD, Apr 4, 2011.
http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_47567356_1_1_1_1,00.html
("Americans spend the least time cooking each day (30 minutes) and Turks the most in the OECD (74 minutes). Most people spend around 50 minutes a day cooking")

(i) The quotation gave the average for each nation under study, which lumped together men and women of each nation.
(ii) The press release mentions China once in the text but its bar chart did not contain China. However, China, but not Taiwan (or Chinese Taipei) is included in all studies of the report.
(iii) Not found in the press release, the separate data for men and women of each nation is in the report.

(c) The report:
Society at a Glance 2011; OECD Social Indicators. OECD.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/10/47571423.pdf

Quote:

"Countries with high paid work time, like China, Japan and Korea, tend to have low
unpaid working time. The opposite is true for Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and
Turkey (Figure 1.3). The apparent trade-off between unpaid and paid work is also reflected
in the lower variation for total working time across countries compared with that of paid
work and unpaid work." page 13

Pages 13-14 is under the heading "Differences between men and women" which includes the title
"Figure 1.4. Women do more unpaid work than men in all countries[;]
Female less male unpaid working time in minutes per day"
, which shows, in terms of unpaid work (mostly household chore): women work more than men in US (slightly 100 minutes more);
in China (about 145 minutes more);
in India (300 minutes or 5 hours more).

The OECD average is 150 minutes--or 2.5 hours--more.

* less (prep): "diminished by : MINUS  <We earned two hundred dollars, less travel expenses>"
www.m-w.com


(3) Gardiner Harris, Head of Surgeons Group Resigns Over Article Viewed as Offensive to Women; Some Valentine's Day thoughts about sex for a medical journal turn out to be unwise. New York Times, Apr 18, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/health/18surgeon.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=surgeons&st=cse
("The editorial cited research that found that female college students who had had unprotected sex were less depressed than those whose partners used condoms. It speculated that compounds in semen have antidepressant effects")

My comment:
(a) Click the blog under the rubric of Related" to read the editorial, which, along with the entire issue, was retracted and did not go out of publishing plant.
(b) The author of the eidtorial, the incoming head of American College of Surgeons is as dump as former Harvard president Larry Summer who surmised women are not as intelligent as men, thus accounting for less women in hard science and professorship. One of the tenets for a scientist--for any person indeed--is 有一分證據 說一分話.

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