Maybe the gender gap in pay is social...
Women still earn on average about 78 cents to a man's dollar. But the failure to negotiate higher pay is crucial....women often just don't think of asking for more pay. If they do, they find the very notion of haggling intimidating, even scary....
Babcock [a researcher] showed people videos of men and women ( Read more... )

I got a call from a recruiter today.  It's starting to happen more often.

I like having a career and being good at it.

I was in my bathroom this morning for some reason thinking about socialism and capitalism... you know, like you do before you're going to brush your teeth and go to work.  Doesn't everyone think this way?  (I thought not.)

Separatists (capitalists) draw lines in the sand. Taxes are a forced means to erase these lines.  We're contributing to the ( Read more... )

The research I have seen says a carbon tax has a better effect in the long run. Nevertheless, I'm still working to make sure that offsets are additional and that ethics are a part of this. She's right about the third world, though. It's rough. Corruption messes up lots and lots of things, including Third World offsets*. And markets are not ( Read more... )

Stop the press: I want to be a management consultant?!? Now there's a surprise [/sarc ( Read more... )

Apparently, I'm actually being discriminated against because I'm straight ( Read more... )

This one deserves comment...
( Spoiler, see movie first! )

Firstly, Spain is really cool. Cheers to Spain for installing all that wind power and attracting industry for doing so. (I tell you, there is something to this 'sustainability' thing, folks)Secondly, remember how I was asked for my resume? I think something is brewing. I'll probably know once I get back from my vacation/surgery recovery (I'm ( Read more... )

I finally got a fucking job!
Thanks to Corban, who passed my resume to the right person, I'm an office bitch at my dream company. My boss already sees my potential and she believes that I won't be working under her for very long ( Read more... )