Affirmative action's a women's issue - and how!

Article Abstract:

Public-opinion polls show that many women do not see affirmative action as a women's issue and indeed, about two-thirds of white women are against preferential treatment for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity. This opposition is based on the widespread assumption that qualified women have no need of special help, unqualified women do not deserve it and preferential treatment reinforces the assumptions of inferiority the nation needs to fight against. The absence of women in key positions is also stigmatizing and the country cannot achieve a society without bias if it pretends all forms of preferential treatment are equally bad.

Analysis, Affirmative action, Feminist jurisprudence

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Who is the criminal?

Article Abstract:

The publicity surrounding the arrest of actor Hugh Grant for buying sex ignores more important questions about inequality and misallocation of resources. Legal commentators disagree over the appropriate legal status of prostitution, but in any event the present use of law-enforcement resources is wasteful and dehumanizing. If nothing else, it should spend the $2,000 needed to prosecute a streetwalker on the true profiteers, pimps and brothel owners, or create true alternatives for the women.

Media coverage, Prostitution, Grant, Hugh (British actor)

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Single-sex schools can only be way stations

Article Abstract:

Single-sex schools are only a temporary solution to problems created by coeducation. Equality in education cannot be guaranteed simply by creating separate but equal schools for each sex. Students at all-female schools do perform better than those in coed schools, but fixing the problems in coeducation would be a better long-term solution than gender separatism.

Elementary and secondary schools, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Evaluation, Education, Single-sex schools, Single sex schools, Coeducation

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