Damsel in Distress Seeks Better Policies, Bigger Paycheck, Prince Who Does Housework
Stop five men and five women on the street outside an elementary school and ask them the shoe size of their youngest child, or the phone number of that child’s pediatrician. Odds are, the women will know both, the men neither. Much ink is being spilled lately to probe the findings of the University of Pennsylvania study on “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” which found that women today are unhappier than women were in the past – and also less happy than men are. Our research on human development offers a few clues.
Damsel in Distress Seeks Better Policies, Bigger Paycheck, Prince Who Does Housework
October 22, 2009 – The Huffington Post
Dropout Prevention Should Be Top of the Class
October 13, 2009 – The Huffington Post
In Louisiana, a Great Racial Divide
October 13, 2009 – Daily Kos
Co-directors argue for HDI over GDP on Fairness Doctrine WDIS-AM Boston (October 1, 2009)
Sarah Burd-Sharps discusses A Portait of Louisiana on the Catholic Channel’s Just Love program on Sirius XM Radio, September 30, 2009
A chance for real improvement
September 28, 2009 – The Daily Comet
G-20 Missed the Point: The Real Wealth of Nations is People
As often happens, the just-completed Pittsburgh G-20 meeting ended with admirable pronouncements, among them, the “responsibility to invest in people by providing education, job training, decent work conditions, health care…and to fight poverty, discrimination, and all forms of social exclusion”. But with the near-exclusive use of GDP growth as the central measure of societal success, we risk falling short of these lofty goals by a long shot.
G-20 Missed the Point: The Real Wealth of Nations is People
September 28, 2009 – The Huffington Post
Report shows ‘huge’ disparities
September 23, 2009 – Houma Today
