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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.

A Baby's Secret Gender

Two Toronto parents are keeping the gender of their third child a mystery to those outside of the immediate family for now.

Read the story here:
http://www.parentdish.com/2011/05/26/genderless-baby/

An Open Letter on Being a Modern Man

Dan Mulhern, husband of former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm and soon-to-be lecturer at Berkeley Law and the Haas School of Business, writes an open letter to his thirteen-year-old son reflecting on what it means to be a man with shifting gender roles in society. He concludes it's a good time to be a man.

via post from The Good Men Project

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!

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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