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Guest Article... by Warren Farrell, Ph. D.
Farrell’s Research Challenges Labor Day Myth: “Men
Paid More for Same Work”
Actually,
in the Census Data according to Farrell, although men make more than
women for
different
work, women now
make more than men for the
same work.
A claim like that calls for a few cross-examining questions...
Q: What is this “different work”
that supposedly leads to women’s lower pay?
Farrell:
Men and women make 25 different work-life choices.
Each leads to men earning more money; and each leads to women having
better lives.
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Guest Article... by
Marty Nemko
A Late Adoptors
Guide to Blogging
When I
hear about computings’ latest and greatest, my reflex is to turn
away. I recall my first experiences with computers: arcane commands,
lost files, and, later, the blue screen of death, offering such
cheery news as: fatal error at 0000D24767694Q.
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Guest Article... by
Wendy
McElroy
Gender Bias in
Domestic Violence Treatment
Feminists
who believe that gender must be a deciding factor in who addresses
domestic violence and how it should be addressed, are appalled. They
view the very prospect of hiring a male director as violating the
"mission" of the shelter movement: to assist battered women and
children.
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Guest Article... by
Glenn Sacks and Jeffery M. Leving
Persecuting Low Income Parents
In a highly-publicized move,
Jefferson County, Kentucky Attorney Irv Maze recently published the
names and addresses of 1,000 alleged “deadbeat parents” in the
Louisville Courier-Journal. The move has drawn praise nationally,
and Maze says the list is helping his office locate debtors.
However, most of the parents on Maze’s humiliating list are not
those who won’t pay, but instead those who can’t pay.
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MEN IN MARRIAGE...
monthly column by Marty Friedman
The Keys to
Understanding Men
and
Creating a Lifelong, Loving Relationship
Recently, a female radio host’s very first
question to me was: “Why won’t men change?” I answered her: “Men
won’t change because women are trying to change them!” I went on to
explain that no man wants to be changed by his woman, any more than
a woman would want to be “sold” a new blouse by someone. Wouldn’t
you rather “buy” than be “sold”? Similarly, men will change when
they choose to do so, not when you make demands or criticize them
for them not changing. And they are much more likely to choose to
change when they come to own their own conclusions and you work with
them, rather than against them. The question to explore here is how
you can work with your man to create a long and loving relationship.
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COYOTE...
monthly column by Dick Prosapio
The Pay-Off
We have always managed to be "out
of debt". At least that's how I've described the fact that we pay
off any credit card charges every month so that we don't have any
interest charges on them. This hasn't always been true, when we've
bought a newer car or truck for example, but MOST of the time, we
are unencumbered; no car payments, no time payments on computers or
TV's, etc. If I mentioned this to anyone they would always say;
"Except for the mortgage though right?"
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly
column by Jeff Stimpson
Tooth Fairy...
A few days have gone by, and I
can't remember when I first spied it. Or didn't spy it. Maybe Alex
was laughing one evening when Jill was out, after dinner (for Alex,
probably two hot dogs and a chocolate protein bar) and I had the
guys alone, and I glanced over and quickly thought something was
just a little ... off.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS...
monthly
column by
Mark Brandenburg,
M.A
Memories of a Father...
Some
day, you’ll be sitting with your child, listening to the radio or
watching a program on TV. Somebody will be talking about premarital
sex, illegal drug use, breaking the law, or some other highly
charged issue. And then, your child will start to ask questions.
What did you do when you were younger? How often?
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TOWARD MANHOOD...
A book in progress
by Larry Pesavento
From chapter
11 Part 2... Sex
The
fear of "selfish", "licentious" sex, especially among adolescents,
dominates our formal social attitudes. The message we all get about
sex is more shaming than uplifting, more about denying it than
living it. Healthy heterosexual relations are often stymied or
truncated by these shaming messages and structures. Yet, informally,
society is obsessed with sex, both by moralizing on it and yet
acting it out. Both obsessions act to the detriment of adult
relationships.
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Chapter
NEW
REVIEWS
REVIEW:
Why Men Earn More: The
Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap—and What Women Can Do About It.
By Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
A new book
from Dr. Warren Farrell is of course eagerly awaited by all of us
who care about gender equity. I dare say that each of his books
represents an evolution since the publication of the previous one,
both in terms of Warren’s own growth and in terms of society’s
developing awareness of, and willingness to hear more regarding,
pertinent men’s and women’s (and people’s!) issues.
READ FULL REVIEW
REVIEW:
SPIN SISTERS: How the
Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of
America. By Myrna Blyth
Every now and then, it’s fun to try something a little different.
Even if it isn’t quite your cup of tea, it keeps life interesting to
try walking in the moccasins of someone with whom you might have
previously thought you had nothing in common. Myrna Blyth has
written a book specifically designed for, and often directly
addressed to, politically conservative women. People such as myself
who don’t fit into these categories may seemingly have little to
gain from reading Spin Sisters. And in fact, Blyth could have
written the book differently in a way that would have carried the
same essential message while allowing her to speak to a wider
audience inclusive of males and non-conservatives.
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REVIEW:
TAKING SEX DIFFERENCES SERIOUSLY. By Steven E.
Rhoads.
University of Virginia public policy professor Steven E. Rhoads’
latest book purports to be a meticulously researched and elegantly
written, provocative and groundbreaking exploration of the masculine
and feminine. I found Taking Sex Differences Seriously to be
a solid though unexceptional book that makes a number of interesting
points. Career women, we learn, have higher average testosterone
levels. Rhoads provides interesting detail on how modern university
textbooks ignore women who choose to focus on volunteer and/or
homemaker careers, ironically implying that the only careers
acceptable for women are those traditionally defined (presumably by
the patriarchy) as successful. Along similar lines, the author
deftly points out the absurdity of prescribing and proscribing
activities for our children based on our political wishes.
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Archive of
All Reviews & Interviews... by J.
Steven Svoboda.
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