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- The Cut provided a guide to sustainable shopping.
- Slate explored the politics of Black hair in the context of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's locs.
- Meanwhile, The New York Times looked at the politics of Rihanna’s pregnancy style.
- The Washington Post reported that while younger women now earn at least as much as or more than men in 22 metro areas, wage gaps grow as working women age.
- Scientific American pointed out that women and people in racial and ethnic minority groups can benefit from calling out their identity while networking.
- The Atlantic observed that while sadness is a central part of our lives, it’s typically ignored at work.
- Slate shared a piece by a woman reflecting on infertility who wondered, “At what point will I know, will we know, that enough is enough and we should stop trying treatments?”
- The New York Times shared tips on finding a therapist in the midst of a shortage of providers.
- Your Laugh of the Week comes from, oddly enough, The New Scientist, which reported on a study in which many volunteers believed they could make an emergency landing as well as any trained pilot. (One group watched a four-minute, silent YouTube video of a plane landing; the other didn't.) The key sentence from the article: “In general, men were significantly more confident in their abilities than women.”
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Anonymous
The scenario in the plane landing study was that the participant was the only person available to attempt to land the plane. In that situation, wouldn’t it be advantageous to be a bit overconfident so you wouldn’t panic? As a scrappy survivor type, I would never think I could land the plane as well as a trained pilot, but I would certainly try to convince myself I could handle it, with instructions from air traffic control if available.
It would have been interesting if they’d put the participants in a flight simulator and looked at any correlation between confidence and performance.
anonshmanon
wasn’t there also a survey in which a surprising amount of men thought that they could win a point off one of the Williams sisters? There was also a study about college students rating each other’s and their own performance, and compared to an objective assessment. It showed that (on average) men rated their own performance too highly, and that of their female classmates too low. And it was the other way around for the women.
Anon
Adopt, don’t shop! If you wouldn’t get a puppy from a breeder, why would you do IVF?
Anon
I can’t believe that you are comparing adopting a child and a pet. There are many legitimate reasons why adoption may not be right for a person, including that it is incredible difficult to adopt a baby and cross-cultural adoptions have many sensitive issues that not everyone is able to deal with.
Anonymous
WOW the sheer ignorance
anon
Ignorance? Or simply a different opinion than the majority opinion on this hive? (Hive is super accurate frankly).
Anonymous
Until you’ve been in the position where you have actively pursued IVF and/or adoption, no one needs to hear your uninformed opinion
anon
What on earth?