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Schilt and Wiswall found that women who become men (known as FTMs) do significantly better than men who become women (MTFs). MTFs in the study earned, on average, 32% less after they transitioned from male to female, even after the authors controlled for factors like education levels. FTMs earned an average of 1.5% more. The study was just published in the Berkeley Electronic Press' peer-reviewed Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy...
...Foundation published the most authoritative work on the gender wage gap in 2006, The Declining Significance of Gender?. In the book, Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, both Cornell economists, show that the average full-time female worker in the U.S. earns about 79% of what the average full-time male worker makes. Women employed full-time actually tend to have slightly more education than men, but women are still more likely to work in clerical and service jobs. Blau and Kahn say women do make different choices when they decide on college majors and jobs - even highly educated women more...
...approach that Japanese politics so desperately needs. None of that did her much good when she recently ran for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party - she received just 46 ballots out of a possible 527. Why did she do so badly? Not just because of some residual male chauvinism, perhaps, but also because she was too obviously the candidate of reform, of liberalization - in other words, she was the candidate who was deemed most "American...
...rewarded.” Some Harvard researchers may have found the link between the culture and the bust. Men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to opt for high-risk investments, according to a study by a Harvard anthropologist and a visiting economist. The researchers gave 98 male Harvard undergraduates $250 and asked them to invest the money as they saw fit. If participants made a successful investment—as determined by the flip of a coin—they were rewarded with two-and-a-half times the amount invested. If the “investment?...
...Quincy House residents, their suite offered small comfort from the rain this weekend as they awoke Saturday to the sound of a male intruder robbing their room. The thief was stealing what amounted to be the third laptop that was snatched from Quincy students in the past week. One victim of the theft, Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, described waking up to find a man going through her purse. The culprit offered her a story about how he was a neighbor who was looking for a quarter so that he could call the American Automobile Association...