Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
The Economist Highlights New ASQ Research
The Economist recently took note of new research in Administrative Science Quarterly revealing that after male CEOs become fathers, they pay themselves […]
Does Fatherhood Make CEOs Less Generous?
A new study in Administrative Science Quarterly finds that when male CEOs have children, their employees can be negatively affected by receiving […]
Gangster Anthropologist
Jorja Leap immersed herself in the culture of Los Angeles’ notorious street gangs for over 10 years, interviewing and working with hundreds of active and former gang members.
Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.
I’m academic male & I don’t care about female ECRs?!
I expect many of you will be aware of the very amusing yet, at the same time, incredibly scary twitter account @academic male…
When the Boys Fit in Better Than the Girls
Racially integrated schools offer a number of benefits for students: they are able to expand their cultural outlooks, gain new friends, learn about those who are different, and get better educations at schools with better resources than they would otherwise attend. However, students may struggle with making friends, interacting across racial lines, developing an ethnic identity and with academic achievement
The Diversity Challenge: Part 2 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we’re continuing our series on diversity, targeting specific questions to invite discussion and exploration of related topics. If you […]
New JME Podcast: Women and Power
We see them everywhere: signs that the old stereotypes about men, women and power remain ingrained in our culture. Where does this […]
