Welmer

Because there has been some discussion in the blogosphere lately concerning the role of women in the American workforce, which they are apparently coming to dominate, I thought a 2008 Financial Times (one of my favorite publications) article on women in software development and IT might be worth examining. It starts out with a story [...]

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As Obama stumps for his new health care plan, this is a good time to start thinking about what the ramifications could be for men. Currently, most of America’s uninsured are men, despite the fact that men suffer more injuries and have a far higher death rate than women. The low priority given to men’s [...]

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Recently, I wrote that Christianity is bearing the brunt of a feminist assault. In that post, I also wrote that Orthodox Judaism appears to be free of this problem, but I was evidently wrong. I recently came across an article on the excellent False Rape Society blog detailing the case of a couple of falsely [...]

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It seems to me that human resources has become one of those gender-specific jobs, like logger or cocktail waitress. In my experience, HR is overwhelmingly female, and these are the people who have the power to hire or fire you. In my limited experience working with female supervisors, I have found them to be less [...]

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Harvard prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been making an ass of himself by getting as indignant as he is over his arrest, but he does make a point, if not the one he’d like it to be. Gates is alienating a lot of people by suggesting that his arrest was racially motivated even though [...]

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Not long ago, the press was covering the story of the resettlement of Uyghur refugees who had been taken captive during Operation Enduring Freedom and subsequently sent to Guantanamo Bay. Some are in Albania, one made it to Sweden, a few are in Bermuda, and the rest have been offered asylum in Palau. Only one [...]

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One often hears that children will be OK after divorce, but this is far from the truth. It is like saying that surviving the trauma of homelessness or victimization from war will not have a lasting effect on children. It’s simply a falsehood perpetuated to make adults feel better about the lousy choices they have [...]

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Henry Allingham, one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War, has died at the age of 113. He lived in three centuries, but above all was a man of the 20th century, perhaps one of the most painful eras the world has ever seen. Soon they will all be gone, and nothing [...]

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I’m no economist — actually, I find most economic discussions boring and somewhat depressing. It also seems that economics attracts a number of evangelists, only they are preaching the Gods of the Marketplace, and I tend to prefer sticking to the devil I know. However, it’s hard to ignore what’s been going on for the [...]

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In most of the developed world, male and female lifespans are separated by a few years. The average difference for all countries appears to be around four years, but that is because men and women in severely deprived countries have roughly the same lifespan. As development increases, women outpace men until they live around six [...]

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