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...converge” is an inadequate, and indeed somewhat meaningless, descriptor for this rich story. Are the factors that participate in the triple convergence mutually reinforcing? Is the relationship among them linear and causal? How does the fall of the Berlin Wall, a singular historical event in 1989, “converge” with open-sourcing...
...pasture by your employer at any age at all. University of Minnesota sociologist Phyllis Moen tracks the breakdown of the "lockstep" life path in her book The Career Mystique. What does midlife even mean, wonders Moen, when life's trajectory is no longer linear? "I make fun of people who say that midlife is between 35 and 70, because what in the world is left...
...notion that an unacknowledged male ideology exists is not a frivolous one. Science and politics might be very different if women were more involved in the fields. Male thinking runs easily to the linear and abstract, and men's search for control does need examination. Beyond Power poses as such a work; instead, its 640 pages promise a rigorous analysis and deliver a series of cartoons. --By John...
...what was described by Summers as the “high powered job hypothesis.” Women aren’t simply choosing family over work, they say, but are also suffering the effects of an “exclusionary business model,” in which linear commitment to a career is a requirement for admittance into the upper echelons...
...with nearly as many strange creatures and daunting tasks as Tolkien did his Middle-earth. With an extra 20 minutes and a probing chat track with Kelly and fellow director Kevin Smith, this beautiful, elusive tale of tangent universes and distant technologies is even more beguiling--and almost makes linear sense. Not that it has to. As Donnie's friend Gretchen tells him, "You're weird." When he says, "Sorry," she replies, "No, that was a compliment." From us too. --By Richard Corliss...