Upcoming “Let’s Talk About Sex” Conference from SisterSong

Upcoming “Let’s Talk About Sex” Conference from SisterSong

Jobless Benefits For Many To End / WCPN.org

Jobless Benefits For Many To End / WCPN.org

Gender Equality and Fair Pay

One reason that Home Economics (now Family and Consumer Sciences) has been called a femal ghetto is because the professionals, mostly women, who work in these fields are so underpaid. Even within universities, professors teaching in FCS units are among the lowest paid. For me, the Paycheck Fairness Act was a refreshing and welcome acknowledgement of what most women know all too well: women work more cheaply than their male counterparts. The irony is, in these troubling times, our willingness to work cheap, take on the jobs of more than one person, and our increasing majorities among recipients of bachelors and masters degrees have advantaged women in this highly competitive market place. It's a sad irony, to be sure. There are those who do not beleive that gender inequality exists anymore, if it ever existed. In fact, there are those who disagree vehemently with anything resembling civil rights legislation, and those voices seem to get increasingly louder.

BMJ Careers - Emotional intelligence

Do doctors and other healthcare providers need emotional intelligence? How can we instill/teach/train or otherwise provide a more comprehensive (and sensitive) skill set to healthcare? BMJ Careers - Emotional intelligence
If we define health as physical, social, and emotional wellbeing, and not just the absence of infirmity, then surely we must train our healthcare practitioners in a much more interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and holistic way. We must truly bring a feminine sensibility to the masculine dominated environment of healthcare!

A thoughtless practice with short-term benefits and long-term pitfalls!

http://www.superkidsnutrition.com/nutrition_answers/pr_candy-as-reward.php

For those of you who believe, as I do, that there are much better ways to reward children for good behavior, please share the more positive incentives you've used. Remember: rewards can be either intrinsic or extrinsic.

Scholarships/Fellowships/Grants -- KAPPA OMICRON NU HONOR SOCIETY

Scholarships/Fellowships/Grants -- KAPPA OMICRON NU HONOR SOCIETY

Scientists unlock how trans fats harm arteries

Scientists unlock how trans fats harm arteries: "The method by which dietary trans fats cause hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) may have been identified by a new study on mice fed a high trans fat diet."