Silicon Valley Discriminates Against Women, Even If They're Better | The Business Desk with Paul Solman Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa discovers that the famed “meritocracy” of Silicon Valley is a myth and that women are systematically discriminated against there, despite the fact that they’re more productive, on average, than their male counterparts. He has a plan to change the Valley. Paul Solman: Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa is a widely heard voice on the value of immigration for the U.S. economy. We first featured him a year ago in “Man v. Machine,” a story on the automation of work and did so again on this page last fall on the threat posed by a programmable robot named Baxter. An immigrant himself (from India), Wadhwa used to think Silicon Valley was a a paragon of open access: talent like his would inevitably prevail. Vivek Wadhwa: Visit any company in the Valley, and you’ll see that it resembles the United Nations. So I was wrong; this is no meritocracy. Since then, I have researched this topic in greater depth. Could the education of women be the problem?
Twitter Best Practices - The Free Beginner's Guide from Moz Utilize tracking and variables in all of your shared links. This will help you to better evaluate the success that individual content pieces have. Look at the day and time your audience is most active, the types of content they engage with most frequently, and the style and tone of your language. From there you can better understand how to share and engage with your community. Be interesting: There's nothing worse than boring tweets. "Boring" is understandably subjective, but you should strive to be interesting to your target audience. Add value: It's important to be consistently present, but not so loquacious that you tweet simply to hear yourself speak. Here's why women have turned the "not all men" objection into a meme Over the past few weeks, the meme "not all men" — meant to satirize men who derail conversations about sexism by noting that "not all men" do X, Y, or Z sexist thing — has exploded in usage: But it would appear that not all men (and not all people generally) are fully caught up on the meme, where it comes from, and the point it's getting across. Here's a brief history of the term, and why it's taken on such resonance lately. 1) What is a man? Might as well start here. A man is an adult male of the species homo sapiens. Some additional notes about men: A man is someone who pays his female employees less. What's that you say? Thanks for pointing that out. 2) What is "Not all men"? Let's say a post is written on the internet about how men do not listen to women when they speak and interrupt them more often than men, an observation borne out by empirical research. 3) How did "Not all men" start? The exact origins of "not all men" are muddy at best. The tweet went viral almost immediately.
You Were Mine, a misc. books fanfic Once upon a time, Enkidu, you were mine. I called you from the edge of the waterhole where you stood thoughtless and innocent in the darkness of ignorance, a child of the beasts and the gazelles and the wide open fields. I called you and you came, and you were mine. Once upon a time, you sat at my feet like a child and I spoke and you listened. And you were mine. It was by the word of Gilgamesh, that great king of Uruk, that I tamed you, Enkidu, and that I loved you. Enkidu, you speak now of a house of dust and death. And your lips, cracked and dry with sickness, pile curses upon me. Your words mean nothing to me. And now you call me back, and your eyes are blind with tears, you heart so easily shifted by the words of Shamash. How can I be happy? I will weep for you, Enkidu, one last time. Haha.
Why Cleaning Is Not Always A Feminist Issue | Mind Matters As recently as a decade ago, a common middle-class American interpretation of a father in a heterosexual couple was "Mom's assistant," as Louis C.K. called it. Parenting was a job defined by the mother, performed more or less correctly by the father, according to her specifications. Today, many of us have more or less replaced this notion with a real-partnership model. Our ideal parenting situation is closer to equal. That means the work is done according to standards that are sometimes shared, sometimes negotiated, sometimes grumblingly accepted because, well, it's not what I would do but that's how s/he does it. Jonathan Chait nailed it Thursday in this post. So the proposal than men split evenly the chores that women do in many homes, which sounds so reasonable and just, morphs into a proposal that men keep their homes exactly as women would like them. I'd like to propose that domestic duties divide into three types. Category 3, though? That's pretty much the only fair solution.
Brain Games & Brain Training - Lumosity How Disney Princesses Lead Young Women To Dystopic Fiction Prince William and Duchess Kate just wrapped up a visit to Australia. In a photo of Aussie crowds greeting the royals, two girls perhaps 5 or 6 years old stare upward at the Duchess’ face. One is clad in a costume modeled off Snow White’s. Somehow, images of slender femininity with flowing hair and royal pedigrees strikes a chord within the souls of small, female children across the globe. It is easy to criticize the megabuck princess industry. No matter how “spunky” and “spirited,” the princesses still communicate the message that the key to success in life is to have diminutive waists and good fashion sense (not to mention small animal friends). The industry is also heavily consumerist. The Romance of Ordinary Life When Aurora’s reunion with her prince fails to thrill, what kind of romances (in the broad sense of the word) are we offering older girls? Yet, as is often pointed out by princess defenders, this craze is merely a phase. What To Do About It
Chez Apocalypse | Reviews, commentary, silliness and sometimes robots. Sorry Feminists—NOT! A good internet meme may last but a day, but the concerns it addresses are often perennial. So it was with the Twitter hashtag #sorryfeminists, which was born, matured, and perished within the span of a workday, as chronicled at the Atlantic Wire. But while the meme got boring fast, the problem it addressed remains. Why do stereotypes of feminists as anti-fun, unsexy, and humorless persist? Generation after generation, going all the way back to the suffragists, feminists have tried to crush these tropes by proving their "pants on fire" status. The latest kerfuffle began when the editor of T Magazine, Deborah Needleman, lived up to her surname by tweeting, “The sexy (sorry, feminists), smart, sassy Katie Roiphe live on stage @nypl on Wednesday night.” No matter the intent behind the joke, online feminists seized it as an opportunity to make fun of these baseless stereotypes with a bit of reductio ad absurdum-type humor by starting the #sorryfeminists hashtag on Twitter. Advertisement com
Dota 2 Education Protects Women From Abuse - Olga Khazan Joe Penney/Reuters The horrifying kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls by the extremist group Boko Haram was made even more horrifying by the fact that the group specifically targeted the girls for trying to improve their lives. Boko Haram went after the girls for the same reason the Taliban went after Malala Yousafzai: Extremists fear smart women. “If you want to mire a nation in backwardness, manacle your daughters,” Nick Kristof wrote in a recent column. Kristof listed some of the better-known positive externalities of having an educated female population: Fewer children, and thus less risk of a “youth bulge” and, later, civil war. But a new report suggests that the benefit of girls’ schooling extends even further—that it has a protective effect against domestic violence, rape, and child marriage. “No place is less safe for a woman than her own home,” reads a World Bank report released this week. “Yes, it’s normal, being beaten, yelled at.
Antonin Careme's Souffle Rothschild Antonin Carâme's invention of the classic soufflé in the early 1820s was made possible by new ovens, which were heated by air drafts instead of by coal. This new technology provided the more even cooking temperature needed for a soufflé to rise properly and stay risen. Initially, Carême made his soufflés in stiff pastry casings that were not eaten. In the 1950s, the dessert was served as the pièce de résistance in fancy restaurants such as Manhattan's La Caravelle. The Whitehall Club used a mixture of sherry and Grand Marnier, which enhanced the flavors of the dried fruits. Ingredients For the soufflé: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. For the sauce: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words) « Sue Gardner's Blog The New York Times piece on Wikipedia’s gender gap has given rise to dozens of great online conversations about why so few women edit Wikipedia. I’ve been reading ALL of it, because I believe we need to understand the origins of our gender gap before we can solve it. And the people talking –on science sites and in online communities and on historian’s blogs– are exactly the ones we should be listening to, because they’re all basically one degree of separation from us already, just by virtue of caring enough to talk about the problem. So below is a bunch of comments, culled from discussions on many different sites — people talking about experiences on Wikipedia that make them not want to edit. 1) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because the editing interface isn’t sufficiently user-friendly. “Wikis are not very friendly – that’s for sure! 2) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they are too busy. “Want to know why I’m not editing Wikipedia? “Wikipedia can be a fighty place, no doubt.
Impossibly cute baby has had enough of her dad chasing her every time she enters a room I think I just destroyed the replay button watching this adorable video. In Seoul, South Korea, software engineer Kwanyoung Park documents the everyday life of his two daughters, Yerin and Yeseo, on his YouTube channel, ‘Bobaepapa’. In one video compilation he made back in April 2013, it features his then-14-month-old Yerin playing their favorite game of chase. The clips always start out with Yerin entering her parents’ bedroom, only to be surprised and eventually chased by her dad. Watch the video below to see how it all plays out. Via LifeBuzz