Quick Hits: Gender and Recession (oh boy!)
Posted by Deborah Siegel on Jan 13th, 2009
2009
Jan 13
A few quick hits:
A front page story in this weekends Style section titled “Daddy’s Home, and a Bit Lost”
Tracy Clark-Flory at Salon on “Rosies of the Recession
Barnard’s new President on “One Gender’s Crash” in WaPo
Former Sec’y of Labor Robert Reich on The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers
And for kicks (though not explicitly on recession), a new video from the YWCA’s OWN IT initiative on what young women want from the Obama Administration.
Seen more stuff on gender and the recession? I’m collecting links!
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January 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
The link for the Daddy’s Home article is wrong — the correct link is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/fashion/11berrys.html?em
The link you gave goes to a 2002 article, which suggests that this isn’t quite as recent a phenomenon as all that.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Re: Daddy’s Home, and a Bit Lost, pls see my post, and let me know what you thought of that New York Times piece.
http://fathersandfamilies.blogspot.com/2009/01/story-in-yesterdays-new-york-times.html
January 14th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Thank you for the link correction, Elizabeth! And Paul, I had visceral response to that article and will write about it some more if I can today! I agree with your post on all fronts. And though I related to aspects, as my own husband just got laidoff, the article was full of such class-bound cluelessness, it made me want to seriously give this couple a smackdown. Even as my heart went out to them. If SAHD is a dope, Wife is a frivolous shopoholic, so stereotypes at play all around. Needless to say, mixed reactions to the piece.