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• Linda Hirshman on Opting Out

  Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:50 AM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  A guest post from Linda Hirshman, author of Get to Work : XX Factor is full of talk of how the Times just corrected its 2003 opt-out story about why women quit their jobs (it's the economy, stupid). Short version: Female factory workers' wages decline Read More...
  Filed under: women, workplace equity, opting out

• The Opt-Out Myth—or, the New York Times Gets It Right This Time

  Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:33 PM By E.J. Graff
  
  Thanks, Meghan , for the pointer to Louis Uchitelle's sharp article in the NYT , noting that women have achieved a new and unwanted equality: equality in unemployment during and after a downturn. At long last we have a front-page correction to the opt-out Read More...
  Filed under: women, workplace equity, motherhood, opting out

• But a Boob Job IS an Investment

  Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:57 PM By Rosa Brooks
  
  In his " Human Nature " blog, Slate 's Will Saletan rejoices over the recession's toll on the cosmetic surgery business and expresses horror at the idea that some suckers (social parasites?) still refinance their homes to get cosmetic surgery during economic Read More...
  Filed under: women, health care, parenting, children, work, workplace equity, plastic surgery, Botox

• Welcoming EJ Graff to XX Factor

  Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:41 AM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  Just a quick note to welcome EJ Graff to our midst! EJ, thanks for the great post . I just finished reading a terrific law review article by Judith Kaye—the chief judge of New York's Court of Appeals—and Anne C. Reddy, looking at why women haven't caught Read More...
  Filed under: women, feminism, workplace equity, motherhood

• Happy Mother's Day

  Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:15 AM By E.J. Graff
  
  Hey y'all, I am delighted to be joining this brilliant assembly. For my first post here, I'd like to point out that Mother's Day is coming up. A year ago I wrote a great deal about how the news media gets working mothers' issues all wrong—talking about Read More...
  Filed under: women, feminism, family, workplace equity, motherhood

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