Teen Girls and the Earliest Gender Inequalities in the Labor Market Yasemin Besen-Cassino, LSE Business Review Economics, Gender Studies, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture The pay gap between men and women is a longstanding problem in both American workplaces and women’s lives, and a new experiment reveals why a commonly proposed solution may not actually help. There have been...
Why Can’t Women “Lean In?” Politics and Economics, That’s Why Amanda Watson Politics & Economics In 2010, at the inaugural TEDWomen conference in Washington, D.C., Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a 15-minute lecture responding to the question, “How are women and girls reshaping the...
Sobaka In The City: Urban Victims of the Post-Socialist Age Kaitlin Solimine Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture From stray animals littering the revolutionary squares of Moscow to illegal migrants roaming the back alleyways of Beijing, today’s post-socialist cities are home to massive discrepancies in wealth and...
Why Sweat? The History and Future of Global Sweatshops Sahiba Gill Government, Society & Culture A New Yorker cartoon published in the late nineties depicts a bedraggled pajamas-wearing man with a morningcho: to examine the label on his shirt, or not? Examination means that before 8am, the man will have...
Phantom Tec Sahiba Gill Government A Hippo Reads Exclusive Reprint, Courtesy of The Common When I read the list of companies who owned the now-ruined clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh—New Wave Bottoms, New Wave Style, Ether Tex,...
