Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-25-2009

[andrewducker]

• Michelle Obama racist image sparks Google apology
  But they're not blocking it - and a damn good thing too.
  (tags: freespeech google usa racism)
• Banks win Supreme Court case on overdraft charges
  (tags: banking banks)
• Myers-Briggs types correlated with giftedness. N and P most likely types.
  (tags: intelligence personality psychology myers_briggs)
• Kissing Hank's Ass
  This is pretty much how I feel about organised religion.
  (tags: religion funny)
• TV Presenter On Death Row For Witchcraft in Saudi Arabia
  I'm not convinced he _does_ weigh more than a duck...
  (tags: religion witchcraft SaudiArabia EpicFail)
• One more reason for the wage gap: What young women choose to study in college
  it's not just a matter of humanities vs. science, or education vs. business, either. In an e-mail, Arreola told me, "The same gap is often seen within engineering itself. Bioengineering has been growing to the point where we could see a 50/50 split of women and men majoring, and there have been some reports of salary staying flat or going down. Engineering fields where women are less than 20 percent pay more."
  (tags: feminism employment academia education pay)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Bank charges -- at least that means they won't start charging for cash withdrawals again, which was apparently their backup plan.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It will probably happen eventually. We are so used to having free personal banking in this country that we forget it is not the norm in most other countries.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Yay, I is the mostest gifted. Me and Tom Cruise.

[andrewducker]

You would make a great couple.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I'd believe in Hank! Where do I sign?! :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

One more reason for the wage gap: What young women choose to study in college
it's not just a matter of humanities vs. science, or education vs. business, either. In an e-mail, Arreola told me, "The same gap is often seen within engineering itself. Bioengineering has been growing to the point where we could see a 50/50 split of women and men majoring, and there have been some reports of salary staying flat or going down. Engineering fields where women are less than 20 percent pay more."

I have a chicken/egg question there. Are the fields that women are going into paying less well, or are the fields paying less because there are more women in them? I'm sure this question is answerable with the right data.

[matgb]

Partially answered in the article; it is a bit of both. There's a lot of chunks of data on it, starting with teaching (which as a profession was male dominated for years) and going into medicine and similar.