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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (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/SB10001424
052748704415104576250672504707048.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/SB1000142
4052748703518704576258792535619956.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_475
("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
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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