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Your numbers item noted the big gap in winnings paid to men and women champions at "Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam event that still pays men more" [April 17]. And why not? The women's matches are the best of only three sets, not five. Less work means less pay. I'm a firm believer in women's rights--equal pay for equal work...
...Boston Globe reported that Harvard students were less satisfied with their campus social life than students at rival institutions. Since then, the College administration and Undergraduate Council (UC) have tried to address the ‘fun gap.’ The UC’s latest solution involves reforming the Campus Life Committee (CLC) and creating an independent social programming board. Although taking the UC “out of the social programming business” might be a step in the right direction, it will not lead to any significant difference of satisfaction with campus social life, because...
...Katz, and Dunster House resident tutor Ilyana Kuziemko, who wrote the study, said women now make up 57 percent of the national undergraduate population, compared to 39 percent in 1960. The study, titled “The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap,” was published online by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and examines the reasons why females now constitute a majority of undergraduate students across the nation. According to the paper, the reversal of the college gender gap is due to “the persistence of behavioral...
...years ago. Many will choose the life of conference calls and long hours at a desk. Of those who have children in addition to jobs, many will feel constantly worried that they are not giving their children enough time and interest. Those who forgo mothering will sometimes feel the gap of not having children. They will reassure themselves, of course, that their work is more fulfilling than mothering could ever...
...punctuate its action. The instrumentation is traditionally Irish, and certainly unique to the production. The accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...