Cheryl Harris (UCLA)’s essay Whiteness as Property does pretty much what it says on the tin: rather than a social designation, a part of a code by which people are sorted and separated from each other, she proclaims whiteness as a thing that some people get to own and others do not....
Off course that’s unfair to the conscientious and diligent members of the group who can’t get hired—they might even be the large majority. But it’s not unjust, from the perspective of the employer and the other employees. Stereotyping works because it does. When it stops working, it’...
Does Gender Matter In Psychology Subject? Gender Gender Equality Gender Stereotypes Psychology has been known to be a male-dominated subject for a while, and consequently, many... 2 Pages | 824 Words Gender and Race Discrimination in Virginia Woolf and Brent Staples ...
Financial inclusion empowers otherwise marginalized demographics.For example, financial inclusion initiatives targeted at women can promote gender equality and women's economic empowerment. By providing access to financial services, women gain more control over their finances, which can lead to improved edu...
Does “Stephen” Pinker’s claim here come from racism, the privilege of old white males, or sexism? I can’t imagine how. It is an empirical claim that has nothing to do with gender or ethnicity. Comfort’s use of the postmodern “male gaze”, his call for diversity, and his implica...
Today we want a passionate marriage or a passionate relationship. Those two things have never had to do because they demand different ingredients. I was very interested in that. What does it mean that romantic love ...
Why Does it Matter? Yellow Dog Productions / Getty Images Simply put, a norm is a rule that guides behavior among members of a society or group.Founding sociologist Émile Durkheimconsidered norms to be social facts: things which exist in society independent of individuals, and that shape our...
They target gender nonconforming people with particular vitriol, casting their very existence as a threat, because they know ignorance begets fear, and fear is a strong baseline for the discrimination they seek. The reality, however, is that knowing, and appreciating, queer people does not threate...
“How many holes does a straw have?” and he brings us into topology and understanding how holes can have various dimensions. As we parsed this, I thought: oh, reading this and then also doing some mini-problem sets on the math could help kids understand things at a deeper level, or ...
LEVITT: So, what does explain the remaining two-thirds of the gender wage gap, if it’s not different choices of professions? GOLDIN: So, it’s really driven almost entirely by this notion of greedy work and hours. The greedy work notion — and I love the phrase and it was a phrase...