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		<title>Gender Pay Gap in the NHS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian newspaper posted this article today about the gender pay gap and &#8220;hostile work culture&#8221; in the NHS.  The pay gap figures are shocking.  Especially the ones that suggest that women actually earn less (in comparison to men in similar jobs) if they work over a longer period of time.  Ugh.
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		<title>&#8220;Gender Fatigue&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study blames &#8220;gender fatigue&#8221; for the failure of companies to increase the number of women reaching executive ranks. “I call it gender fatigue, paying lip service to an underlying problem that people feel weary of discussing. They just assume that since policies are in place, the problem is solved and no more needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7390&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Same-sex couples&#8217; parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NY Times has a discussion of the parenting of same-sex couples.  It looks at Abbie E. Goldberg&#8217;s new book, “Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children,” which  is an analysis of more than 100 academic studies, most looking at groups of 30 to 150 subjects.   Most of the focus is on lesbian parenting, since gay men parented much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7383&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/same-sex-couples-parenting/</link>
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		<title>Universal Health Care Coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the US is getting closer to something approximating universal health care coverage.  I haven&#8217;t looked to see just what&#8217;s happened to, for example, legal foreign visitors, still less illegal ones, but it looks a lot better than the status quo.  And there are even provisions for same-sex couples that make their situation more equitable.
There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7380&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sunday cat doubts whether Pulis really exist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what is supposed to be one:

But clearly the identity conditions are at least vague:

And the Sunday Cat apologizes to dog lovers for  only finding suspect dogs.
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		<link>http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-sunday-cat-doubts-whether-pulis-really-exist/</link>
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		<title>Women Philosophers and Academic Administration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evelyn Brister has a great post over at Knowledge and Experience on women philosophers and administrative leadership.  There&#8217;s an interesting collection of statistics, facts and explanatory observations.  Among the last, there&#8217;s this interesting observation:
              This quote is from an article in the journal Women in Leadership:
Women presidents differ greatly in their approaches to leadership. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7369&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/women-philosophers-and-academic-administration/</link>
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		<title>Down with Shame!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m in a board meeting. Having a miscarriage. Thank goodness, because there&#8217;s a fucked-up three-week hoop-jump to have an abortion in Wisconsin.&#8221;
Thus ran Penelope Trunk&#8217;s tweet, which she defends further here. 
Liberal Conspiracy provides a vehement defence of her action, in the face of a barrage of outraged responses. There Laurie Penny attacks such outrage as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7363&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/down-with-shame/</link>
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		<title>More on education and consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exam boards responsible for developing courses at secondary level compete with one another to sell their courses to schools.  Unsurprisingly, schools like to buy courses that result in the best grades, since good grades = better position in league tables = more students at school = money to pay teachers and to buy resources. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7360&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/more-on-education-and-consumers/</link>
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		<title>A contest:  Word has reached us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[of little practices in philosophy departments that, well, if not exactly stink, then are definitely off.
The prize may go  to the department that keeps a web calendar  named after urinals you might have seen in Paris, le pissoir.**
Can you top that?  Get even close?  If so, please let us know! 
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		<link>http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/word-has-reached-us/</link>
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		<title>Baby and Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Cause it&#8217;s just what girls like, of course.
Baby and Me comes with a doll, but not just any doll. This doll features a slot for the Wii remote so that the game can track feeding, playing, and excessive shaking motions. The game also features Balance Board support so that you can rock baby to sleep.
(Thanks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feministphilosophers.wordpress.com&blog=1106975&post=7350&subd=feministphilosophers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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