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  • More on the Terrible Horrible No Good Billable Hour

    Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:44 PM By Emily Bazelon

    Judith , you nailed the efficiency vs. availability conundrum. I'm sure there is room for law firms to dethrone The Hour—and here's a good recent Slate piece by Lisa Lerer explaining why the push for them to do so is coming from their clients. Perhaps Read More...

  • To Quote Margaret Spellings ...

    Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:51 AM By Melinda Henneberger

    The good news in the study Meghan writes about is that both men and women reported feeling more comfortable in professional groups that included more women. Does this mean that men, too, find predominantly male groups more intimidating? Or less interesting? Read More...

  • Re: Re: Speaking of XX, again

    Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:50 AM By Meghan O'Rourke

    I agree that it’s foolish for UC Davis to rescind its invitation to Summers to speak—even if his comments were foolish and ill-informed , as I argued two years ago. But the problem with Christina Hoff Sommers’ piece—and the reason I don’t find it all Read More...
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  • Re: Speaking of XX, again

    Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:33 PM By Anne Applebaum

    But surely this was Sommers' point: How will we ever be able to talk about sex differences in an interesting way if we're not allowed to study them? If the subject is an academic taboo, then the same old cliches will just live on for another generation. Read More...
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  • Re: Speaking of xx

    Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:18 PM By Emily Bazelon

    Yes, Larry Summers should be able to speak at Davis. He's done his time (and lost his job). But I'm not ready to says he's a hero for telling it like it is about women and the sciences, which is what Sommers implies. During the fracas over his remarks Read More...
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  • Speaking of XX

    Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:20 PM By Emily Yoffe

    Christina Hoff Sommers has an interesting op-ed in the WSJ today about the academic struggles ignited over former Harvard President Larry Summers remarks about why women are not better represented in the hard sciences. On one hand an invitation for Summers Read More...
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