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SCOTUSblog Online Symposium: Same-Sex Marriage

Submitted by tangs on August 15, 2011 - 11:09pm
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SCOTUSblog, an essential resource for anyone that follows the Supreme Court, is having a (blog) symposium on same-sex marriage where they'll be publishing articles by leading voices on both sides of the debate. This archive link goes to a page that will aggregate articles as they're posted.

Other than the symposium announcement (complete with list of contributors) there are already a few articles posted:

Facebook COO: Women Need to Be More Assertive

Submitted by tangs on July 5, 2011 - 11:37pm
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A New Yorker piece on Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and one of the most powerful women in business and technology, profiles her career and also outlines her perspective on women in the workplace (as well as criticisms of her view). Broadly, she thinks women get in their own way more than men get in their way, and that many problems would be solved by women being more assertive.

U.S. Households

Submitted by yamins on June 19, 2011 - 9:27am
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Cool interactive article from the NYT. You can choose who lives in the family and the article will tell you how many families with that makeup are in the US, as well as other social signifiers they have. For instance, there are 11,617 lesbian couples with a child over the age of 18.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/19/nyregion/how-many-househol...

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