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...patently misinformed op-ed published on January 25 (“Summers’ Theory of Inequality?? by Farley and Stone) is based on the false premise that Larry Summers made a confident assertion about gender differences; in fact, he laid out three different hypotheses in his 2005 talk. Farley and Stone refer repeatedly to a theory that simply does not exist. Speculating about three possibilities is quite different from stating (testable) results that follow logically from a collection of axioms—that’s what a theory...
...During the “Inequality and Justice in the 21st Century” symposium, a group of five professors debated inequality??s relationship with man, and more specifically the University...
...that didn’t have 80-hour work weeks to combine family with career and to do it in a way that was satisfying. Now, why not her husband?”Questions such as these have long fascinated Goldin as she has studied the factors leading to inequality??in gender, race, and education.Previously, this has led her to study slavery in the antebellum South, labor participation of black and white women in the 1970s, and the history of wage inequality in the U.S.The latter topic is the subject of her latest book, co-written with...
Sociology 263, “Globalization and Comparative Inequality?...
...this value? By limiting their numbers in schools, educational administrators, in effect, are sending this signal. In the end, bringing the issue of inequality to a successful conclusion via affirmative action is difficult. One can view affirmative action—a policy to help foster diversity and address previous inequality??as harmful depending on one’s perspective. On one hand, it can serve to divide those considered a “minority” to fight among themselves for limited resources or opportunities, thus preserving the power for those who have benefited in the past...