Category Archives: Women

Why Do They Hate Us?, is a powerful and moving jeremiad by Mona Eltahawy. It accurately describes without dispute the sorry state of female flourishing in the Middle East, broadly understood. And yet I wonder at the quasi-Freudian rationale on offer, that these men “hate” women. A  rationale of this sort seems more derived from the worries […]

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Recently on the NPR show Here and Now I was introduced to the concept of ‘loverboys.’ This is a specific phenomenon in the Netherlands were older males target schoolgirls, and entrap them in relationships where these girls are prostituted out (there are repeated references to group sex). Even before it got to that part I […]

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Matt Yglesias has posted some charts showing that
1) Childlessness among women is becoming more common
2) The variation of this state by education is disappearing
Here’s the chart which illustrates the second phenomenon:

I think the reason this may be occurring is a dilution of the sample bias of women who have higher education in relation to the […]

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Razib Khan