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Don’t be fooled by the bland title: The paper’s findings are a social Molotov cocktail wrapped in academic brown paper. Most notably, the three researchers (who hold positions at Harvard, NYU, and the University of Utah) found after a series of four studies that “husbands embedded in traditional and neo-traditional marriages (relative to husbands embedded in modern ones) exhibit attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that undermine the role of women in the workplace.
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“Marriage Structure and Resistance to the Gender Revolution in the Workplace”, Atlantic

  • “We found that employed husbands in traditional marriages, compared to those in modern marriages, tend to (a) view the presence of women in the workplace unfavorably, (b) perceive that organizations with higher numbers of female employees are operating less smoothly, (c) find organizations with female leaders as relatively unattractive, and (d) deny, more frequently, qualified female employees opportunities for promotion.”
  • “One of the reasons why there aren’t as many women at the top is perhaps men at the top tend to be benevolent sexists who tend to see women as people who should be shielded from danger and risks,” says Desai. “They are probably thinking of women as fragile beings who need to be taken care of, that want to stay at home and raise kids and don’t want to take risks and move to the top.”
Women don’t need “chivalry”  from the law or at the workplace.
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theatlantic: The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, suffered smoke inhalation and minor burns to his hands after rushing into a burning building last night to help a rescue a woman inside. Good mashup, missing only Hilary texting back “back to work, boys” :)))

theatlantic:

The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, suffered smoke inhalation and minor burns to his hands after rushing into a burning building last night to help a rescue a woman inside.

Good mashup, missing only Hilary texting back “back to work, boys” :)))

(Source: theatlanticwire.com)

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when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is “a myth” and more men generally survive such disasters than women and children
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  • Economists Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixon of Uppsala University also showed in their 82-page study that captains and their crew are 18.7 percentage points more likely to survive a shipwreck than their passengers.

  • Out of the 15,000 people who died in the 18 accidents, only 17.8 percent of the women survived compared with 34.5 percent of the men. In three of the shipwrecks, all the women died, Elinder said.

  • The researchers called the Titanic an exception to their findings, mainly because its captain, Edward Smith, threatened to shoot men unless they yielded to women for lifeboat seats. Capt. Smith went down with his ship. Of the 1,496 people that perished with the Titanic, 73.3 percent of the women and 50.4 percent of the children survived compared to only 20.7 percent of the men. The role of the captain was crucial, they said, stressing that only in five of the 18 disasters studied had captains given an order to prioritize the rescue of women and children.

  • Capt. Christer Lindvall, president of The International Federation of Shipmasters’ Associations, said he was not surprised about the findings but stressed that there are no rules stating that women and children should be rescued first. Regarding the Titanic, he said Capt. Smith was likely forced to make a choice between men and women because he knew right away there were not enough lifeboats to save everyone.

  • When it comes to the statistical survival advantage of captains and their crew, Lindvall said it doesn’t necessarily mean that they had abandoned passengers who were not yet rescued. He said it could mean that their training and experience likely played a significant role in their survival. “I don’t think a captain should go down with the ship for the sake of going down with it. But you shouldn’t leave the ship until all passengers are safe, or you know that you have done everything you can to try to save them,” Lindvall said.

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