Random links
- UND refuses to reopen case of expelled student: Fargo 24-year-old never arrested or charged in sexual assault allegation
- In short, the police found that the woman who'd accused this guy of rape had lied and filed criminal charges against her, but the university has rejected the option of hearing an appeal to the expulsion they handed him upon hearing her allegation.
- Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short
- This crowd, incidentally, also makes up a rather large fraction of voters. They seem likely to account for a large fraction of those who don't want cuts to benefits.
- Have It Your Way? Purist Chefs Won’t Have It
- The opposite of the-customer-is-always-right approach. Assuming that I know the sort of behaviour I'm likely to encounter in a particular place I'm not sure that I've got a massive problem with this. Typically the specialties are likely to be made better anyways.
- After CEOs have daughters, women employees’ wages go up
- It's a not-yet-published study looking at corporations in Denmark over the course of 12 years: "... when male CEOs had daughters, their female employees' wages went up 1.3 percent while their male employees only gained .8 percent raises. So the birth of a daughter effectively shrunk the male-female wage gap by .5 percent on average." The article notes that (presumably privacy regulations mean) that the same sort of data likely couldn't be obtained for Americans. It does note that previous research found "that U.S. legislators were more likely to vote more liberally on women's reproductive issues if they had daughters." and that having daughters also made parents more likely to adopt feminist attitudes.