Word: maleness
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...case centered on "disparate impact." If an employer requires applications by video, then those without video cameras and broadband-equipped computers might argue they lacked access. Of course, he adds, the live interview process is hardly infallible. He cites a 2000 Princeton study that examined orchestras' penchant for hiring male musicians as an example of "disparate treatment." When screens were put up--now a common practice in auditions--the gender skewing disappeared...
...looks to continue this important upswing with the appearance of Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications; 383 pages; $30). Another in the long line of interesting female artists who get overshadowed and even vilified as a result of being married to a beloved male artist (in this case, Robert Crumb), Kominsky Crumb gets the solo attention she deserves with this new book. Need More Love delivers some of the most endearingly uninhibited comix ever put to paper...
According to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) police Lieutenant Salvatore L. Venturelli, the man—whom he described as a Caucasian male in his fifties—jumped at approximately 7:30 p.m. in front of an outbound subway train...
...increase in the risk of heart attacks among middle-aged women, Rosner said she does not recommend that people increase their coffee consumption with the “goal of reducing their risk” for heart problems. These results are consistent with other cohort studies done in all-male populations, but Rosner said it is possible that the results may vary if the type of coffee consumed or the method by which it is prepared differs between racial or ethnic populations. Swedes were the subjects of choice in the study because they are known to be heavy coffee consumers...
...style were incredibly honest, and even as a first- time listener, I felt drawn into her inner circle after the first few songs.Jones later moved to the center of the stage and brought out her band. In contrast to Jones herself, the rest of the band members were all male and all young. One guitarist was wearing a black and orange pin-striped suit with a bright teal tie, another was dressed like a 1950s gangster, and the third looked like an Urban Outfitters version of a Buddhist monk. Standing in the middle of this motley crew, surrounded...