|
|
Publications |
|
|
|
Publications
|
|
Stay on Top of the Latest Policy Issues Set up a PRI member account to subscribe and receive our publications free via email.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unraveling the Achievement Gap on Campus
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.5.2010
For the first time ever, women outnumber men at all levels of higher education. More women than men apply, enroll, and graduate with bachelor's and advanced degrees. The response from feminist groups has been drearily predictable.
Read more
|
|
|
A Woman’s Nation?
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.5.2010
The year 2010 has arrived at last, but before proceeding we must clear up some unfinished business. In late 2009, the Center for American Progress published the Shriver Report, named after Maria Shriver, a celebrity and California’s First Lady. The subtitle, A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, begs some very important questions.
Read more
|
|
|
Eyes on the Prize
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.1.2009
Next week the 2009 year’s Nobel winners receive their prizes. They include two women who deserved their awards but are not likely to draw cheers from feminist celebrities.
Read more
|
|
|
Why Feminists Make No Allowance for Women’s Choices
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.3.2009
A recent story in the British Daily Telegraph confirms that feminists think they have found a new wage gap in children’s allowances. Echoing several recent studies in the United States and Australia, the UK’s Co-operative Investments Child Trust Fund finds that parents give their sons 10 percent more spending money on average, while asking their daughters to do the lion’s share of the more domestic tasks, such as cooking and cleaning.
Read more
|
|
|
Is the Recession Harder on Women than Men?
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.6.2009
“During the current economic crisis, high-flying women have been overlooked for promotion, according to a study out Tuesday,” read the August 19 CNN headline, above the subtitle, “At the upper level of management, business is still dominated by men.”
Read more
|
|
|
Bean Counting Comes to Broadway
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.1.2009
The theatre of the absurd enjoyed a run on Broadway this summer as the theatrical world reacted to the publication of a new study on gender bias. Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender, by Princeton economics student Emily Glassberg Sands, features a three-part inquiry into the scarcity of female playwrights in American theatre.
Read more
|
|
|
The Gender Gap in Happiness
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.4.2009
“By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness had declined both absolutely and relative to men. . . These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging – one with higher subjective well-being for men.”
Read more
|
|
|
|
 |
Publications
