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Intelligence Squared Debate: Men Are Finished

Intelligence Squared is a program that arranges Oxford-style debates on a wide range of timely and provocative topics. For this debate, the proposition is MEN ARE FINISHED:

In a modern, post-industrial economy that seems better suited to women than men, many are wondering if men have been permanently left behind. Education and employment statistics point to a clear and growing dominance in women’s status at home and in the workplace. Are men primed for a comeback or have the old rules changed for good? (Media links after the jump.)

Facebook COO: Women Need to Be More Assertive

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.

Highlighting Symposium Speakers: Julie Seaman

This video features Julie Seaman discussing how evolutionary differences between the sexes can help us understand sex discrimination, especially in the employment law field.
http://vimeo.com/16540032

If you like videos, don't forget Hastings Women's Law Journal's Symposium will be broadcasting live on the internet February 25, 2011!

NLRB: Facebook Firing Verboten

The National Labor Relations Board says a company rule prohibiting "employees from depicting the company “in any way” on Facebook or other social media sites in which they post pictures of themselves" is overbroad. The NLRB has filed a complaint against American Medical Response of Connecticut for firing an EMT for criticizing her boss on facebook. More at the New York Times.

Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality

Hastings Professor (and HWLJ Author) Joan Williams at Feministe!
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/09/06/gender-pay-gap-underest...

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