Boys rules, Girls lose? Do these theories still hold true? This year, for the first time in the US, the number of women in the workforce surpassed the number of men.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...
I don't believe this majority exists in blue collar jobs, but I could be mistaken.
That's a good question. But cultures have inertia, so it's likely that even with women forming the majority of the workforce, "masculine" conventions will prevail for a while. This is especially true given that men still tend to hold more positions at the top of the corporate hierarchy.
yes i agree with your comment - men are now coasting - that is - they move on inertia - riding the male system designed 2000 years ago - but women have the momentum and therefore they will conquer the workplace within 50 years
i have been researching this topic lately and as i wrote here http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/about/ women have kept alive from generation to generation the memory of a society where females were rulers of men
–all authority was vested in the woman who discharged every kind of public duty – the men looked after domestic affairs and did as they were told by their wives – men were not allowed to undertake war service or to exercise any functions of government or to fulfill any public office – such as might have given them more spirit to set themselves up against the women – the children were handed over immediately after birth to the men who reared them–
For the record, this book is pretty controversial. It theorizes about a society that may have existed over 6000 years ago. It references the Amazons - who were mythological - and there is quite a bit of disagreement in the academic community about the validity of the conclusions.
--there is quite a bit of disagreement in the academic community about the validity of the conclusions--
i read a book for myself and draw my own conclusions - the authority of an -academic community- means nothing to me - if you read the book and wrote your own opinion that would have been a valuable contribution instead of a reference to the authority of something that does not exist namely -academic community-
I've seen a lot of responses recommending Bing. What is Microsoft's stance on net neutrality? Aren't they the company that tried to prevent other web browsers from being installed on their OS back in 98?
Don't get me wrong, my business is enmeshed with google now and I'm looking for alternatives, but if the problem is with Google's political stance on net neutrality wouldn't all these recommendations be incomplete without including a statement on the company's political stance with regards to net neutrality?
hmmm - I think in a way it is good that the authorities have to prioritize which offenses to concentrate on. I forsee this as having a bunch of 'church ladies' glued to the cameras reporting every little j-walk and hit off a pinchie.
I worked in Corning's S&T plant (Sullivan Park) for a number of years. Corning is all about process and the recipe may have been around for a while, but the process surrounding getting large enough (in the case of TVs) imperfection free pieces of glass was extremely difficult and time consuming. I don't think they really 'sat on it' and 'dug it out' so much as they were able to perfect the manufacture of some of their other recipes more quickly.
The glass has to be completely clear, completely flat and extremely thin - not an easy result to get at no matter what your recipe.
wow - it really sucks that we have to root for other countries to protect us from the Entertainment Industry.
Go USA! Go Freedom!
Give me a break - they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us because we put the interests of business and capital ahead of the interests of people.
Transmission of music data at rates faster than the
speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I
was hearing the music before I actually wanted to
play it. Apparently Denon forgot how accustomed most
of us are to unidirectional time and the general laws
of physics.
I can't recommend this cable enough. I bought a set of
four for my home cinema setup, and I haven't regretted
it at all. [...] When I sit down and listen to the
transcendent music they produce, I can feel my pain
just drift away. Sometimes I even play a CD, but that's
not really necessary.
My personal favorites revolve around Tuscan Whole Milk[1] and Uranium Ore / Yellow Cake[2]. Especially the top-rated milk review, and how often the uranium ore shows up when you're searching for yellow cake mix :)
I highly recommend browsing this site to get an understanding of what quality really means. I have met several people who 'get it' and have installed quality products like this: they have all been very happy with the results. *
* which appear to involve competitive shopping as a proxy for income
could it just be that MySpace gave its users too much freedom in page design and it turned into an ugly, blinking, unreadable, music auto-playing pile of s#it?
Maybe. Aesthetic tastes differ, and the paper does provide some anecdotes suggesting that MySpace's profiles appealed more to certain racial and socioeconomic groups.
However, social networks do a pretty good job at segregating - as long as your friends are bourgeois and share your bourgeois design sensibilities, you can use MySpace without bumping into too much 'profile bling'.
Instead, it seems that some white and Asian kids of high socioeconomic status joined Facebook because it was associated with elite universities and therefore reflected their aspirations - and once this process started, people went where their friends were, self-segregating along racial and economic lines just like they do in high school (and throughout the rest of society.) Aesthetic tastes became a socially-acceptable justification for that move, but I don't think they were the primary cause.
That said, a good knowledge of the aesthetic preferences of various social groups could be valuable. Could a startup trigger a similar 'white flight' in an established service by intentionally appealing to the most economically valuable demographic? Can we build good niche businesses by creating things like race-specific Twitter clients?
Can we build good niche businesses by creating things like...
Yes. And they'd be "niche" in the sense that Fox News is "niche." (Best comment on Fox ever: "They discovered a previously untapped market niche: half the country.")
Half the country, literally, is so far off the radar screen for most software companies it is embarrassing.
There are dating sites for every conceivable slice of the demographic pie. This applies to many other sites too, although I think a lot of folks don't realize it. (You guys know Demand Media because of their SEO strategy, not because they are dominating the Internet of interest to your demographic.)
Could a startup trigger a similar 'white flight' in an established service by intentionally appealing to the most economically valuable demographic? Can we build good niche businesses by creating things like race-specific Twitter clients?
That's part of it, although I think it's more along the lines of MySpace not providing proper customization tools in the first place. Once it was discovered that users could redesign their pages in a very hacky method it really went downhill. I mean, stuffing CSS in the "About Me" form field? That's not a real way to provide customization options.
I remember the internet before it became a corporate whorehouse and it was fine. Back when the newspapers didn't take it seriously and every little mom and pop shop didn't have a website. Before people felt the need to tweet every time they take a dump. Back when it was just people talking to people.
I say hey - if you can't make a buck and that's the only reason you're trying to communicate then just go away. I'm not logging on to spend money... go get a real job.
I kind of like mom-and-pop places having websites. Not necessarily the honest to god mom-and-pop's in the middle of nowhere, but it's handy that more than just the chains, franchises and giants have web pages.
