Gender and the sociology faculty

Philip N. Cohen's avatarFamily Inequality

In an earlier post, I reported on gender and theAmerican Sociological Association’s (ASA)leaders, PhDs received, subject specialization, editors and editorial boards. Here is a little more data, which I’ll add to that post as well as posting it here.

Looking at the gender breakdown of PhDs, which became majority female in the 1990s,I wrote: “Producing mostly-female PhDsfor a quarter of a century is getting to be long enough to start achievinga critical mass of women at the top of the discipline.” But I didn’t look at the tenure-ladder faculty, which is the next step in the pipeline to disciplinary domination.

To address that a little, I took a sample from the ASA’s 2015 Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology, which I happened to get in the mail. Using random numbers, I counted the gender and PhD year for 201 full-time sociology faculty indepartments that grant graduate degrees(that excludes…

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The conservative case against capital punishment – George Will

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The long-lived charter: Magna Carta’s 800 year legacy

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800 years ago today, Magna Carta was sealed at Runnymede. In the last of our series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, Dr Alexander Lock, Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library and lead researcher for the Library’s acclaimed Magna Carta exhibition, discusses how Magna Carta came to become an important symbol of the parliamentary system…

Though Magna Carta does not – as is occasionally claimed – represent the foundation of democracy, Magna Carta holds an important place in the history of parliament. In its medieval context it for the first time placed the executive under the rule of law and explicitly limited the Crown’s capacity to raise revenue without the consent of a ‘common counsel of the realm’. Clause 12 for instance stated that ‘No scutage or aid is to be levied…except by the common counsel of our realm…’…

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Why do these top 0.1 percenters get a pass from the Occupied Movement and Twitter Left?

DRI-270 for week of 10-6-1: How is Job Safety Produced?

This an excellent summary

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How is Job Safety Produced?

The best-selling book on economics in the 20th century was probably Free to Choose, the 1980 defense of free markets by Milton and Rose Friedman. It contained a chapter entitled, “Who Protects the Worker?” In it, the authors highlighted the tremendous improvement in the working conditions and living standards of workers from the Industrial Revolution onward. What, they inquired rhetorically, accounted for this? The Friedmans suggested “labor unions” and “government” as the likely top two answers to any poll taken on this subject.

One of the nation’s leading experts on the subject of risk and safety is W. Kip Viscusi, long an economics professor at Harvard, Duke and Vanderbilt universities and now affiliated with the Independent Institute. In an essay on “Job Safety” for the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, Viscusi wrote: “Many people believe that employers do not…

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The ridiculous non-candidate charade in presidential primary elections

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Improvements in life expectancy since 1900

Salads poison more Americans than hamburgers

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Middle class stagnation versus food poverty

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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by gender, Anglo-Saxon countries

Figure 1: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of women, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010

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Source: OECD family database.

Figure 2: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of men, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010

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Source: OECD family database

Leftist Narrative on Inequality Is Debunked by Academic Evidence

Dan Mitchell's avatarInternational Liberty

The proper view on inequality is that it doesn’t matter.

That assumes, of course, that people are earning their income honestly rather than via government-enabled cronyism.

To elaborate, some people will become rich in a system of honest and competitive markets, but that’s not at the expense of the poor. Indeed, the talents and skills of top investors and entrepreneurs generally make life better for the rest of us.

So if we want to help the poor, we shouldn’t attack the rich. Instead, we should pursue policies that will allow faster growth. That benefits everyone, particularly those on the bottom of the economic ladder (though there also are some specific policies that are disproportionately helpful to the less fortunate, such as school choice).

Unfortunately, there are many leftists who genuinely seem to think the economy is a fixed pie. And they seem impervious to all the…

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Australians are the world’s worst gamblers

Richard Cobden on John Stuart Mill’s greatest mistake

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The Value of Steve Jobs

Peter G. Klein's avatarOrganizations and Markets

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As you have likely heard, Steve Jobs is taking an indeterminate leave of absence from Apple to deal with his continuing health problems. How will this affect Apple? How important is one person — albeit the founder and CEO — to a diversified multinational company with tens of thousands of employees? Apple’s stock slipped slightly on the news of Jobs’ leave (down 2.3 percent today, the first trading day after the announcement), but Jobs’s health problems are well known and Apple’s stock price presumably already included a discount reflecting the possibility he’d step down. To estimate the value of a particular employee to the firm in this way, we need an unanticipated departure, one that isn’t a response to poor performance and isn’t expected in advance.

Sure, enough, there’s an app for that — I mean, there’s a literature on that. An influential 1985 paper by Bruce Johnson, Robert Magee, Nandu…

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