“Though women have more power to move the relationship closer to marriage, they still want the man to ask. That’s considered his job.”
.. “Having him ask for her hand in marriage is a way of signaling to her, and his friends and family, that he’s serious and ready for a future with her,” Professor Wilcox said. “The guy who proposes in the basketball arena is sending a massive signal to the world that he’s all in and completely committed.”
.. “Her fear might be if she asks and he says yes, he’s going along to get along,” Professor Wilcox added. “Getting that formal proposal from him is one way of addressing that concern.”
.. “Women traditionally want to be courted, and men still want to propose. Most men are not comfortable being asked.” She added: “Men can feel powerless or rushed. They think, ‘Why isn’t she waiting. I want to do it on my time.’ ”
.. From our research, many men said having a woman propose to them wouldn’t feel right,” she added. “It’s also about controlling the timing of these events.
India’s Deadly Superstition
Even as India modernizes, witchcraft accusations are common, leading to the murders of over 2,000 people, mostly women, in the last 15 years. One woman in Assam State in the country’s northeast is confronting accusers and demanding government action.
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men
Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
Economists Against the Draft
Economists actually played a key role in the Nixon administration’s decision to end the draft in 1973. The draft ended because people hated the Vietnam War, but economists provided the intellectual justification.
.. The basic argument was that the market for soldiers should work like any other labor market. Let the government decide how many people it needs, and let it pay for their labor.
.. A draft lowers the cost for the wealthy “because the people who are important don’t have their children going off and they’re also not paying as much in taxes.”
.. “The military now concedes that women can perform in combat roles, so the rationale for why they shouldn’t be drafted doesn’t apply,” said Tim Bakken, a law professor at the United States Military Academy, adding that a new lawsuit could force a change. “The facts have overtaken the law.”