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...wage gap may be largely attributable to gender-role attitudes. And the big winners, it seems, is men with traditional views. Why the gap persists, Judge and Livingston aren't sure, but Judge thinks it might be have something to do with the different ways men and women sign onto new jobs. Women on the whole are less effective at negotiating salaries than men, and they tend to be less aggressive about asking for bigger salaries, or they accept employers' offers without negotiating at all. And Judge suspects that tradition-bound women may be even worse at it than their...
Whether it was the smell of the barbeque in the crisp autumn air, the fight with a friend (or now enemy) over a “Crimson Crazies” t-shirt, or the thrill of watching the team run onto the field, the Harvard nighttime football game against Holy Cross encapsulated the school spirit Harvard often lacks. Even without the heroic comeback—the two touchdown dives that ignited fans—Harvard was a winner on Friday night because of the way the game rallied the campus community. But rather than sitting back and feeling proud about...
...managers have been doing. According to Crane Data, over the past 13 months, 21 money market funds have received capital infusions from their parent companies in order to avoid breaking the buck. Parent companies can go as far as actually handing the funds cash and take the troubled assets onto their own books. The early problems were tied to commercial paper issued by mortgage-related structured investment vehicles and collateralized debt obligations (don't worry: there won't be a quiz on the terminology), but more recently four funds (at least so far) have propped up their money markets because...
...read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”).After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire James Bond collection compressed onto three DVDs, but I’ve been trying to find something under the pirated, superficial materialism that has saturated far too much of Shanghai.In my search for authenticity, I quickly found a group from whom, collectively, one should never seek advice: expats. These men and women come from all over...
Students are taught to think beyond simply drawing a building onto a piece of paper, said associate professor of architectural technology Christoph Reinhart. They must consider the ramifications of their designs, particularly energy expenditure, he added...