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Japanese women struggle in recession - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 18 Aug 10 - Cached
  • "Our cases indicate a pattern where women are struggling to survive economically," Fujii said, adding that this trend is likely to persist and widen the gap between those who have stable careers and those stuck in part-time or contractual work. "Part-timers complain of mental depression, constant sexual harassment from male bosses and having to put in long hours to make enough money. Their lives are poor compared to career women," she said.
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In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The study of the humanities evolved during the 20th century “to focus almost entirely on personal intellectual development,” said Richard M. Freeland, the Massachusetts commissioner of higher education. “But what we haven’t paid a lot of attention to is how students can put those abilities effectively to use in the world. We’ve created a disjunction between the liberal arts and sciences and our role as citizens and professionals.”
  • “There’s a lot more to a liberal education than improving the economy. I think that is one of the worst mistakes that policy makers often make — not being able to see beyond that.”
  • To Mr. Delbanco of Columbia, the person who has done the best job of articulating the benefits is President Obama. “He does something academic humanists have not been doing well in recent years,” he said of a president who invokes Shakespeare and Faulkner, Lincoln and W. E. B. Du Bois. “He makes people feel there is some kind of a common enterprise, that history, with its tragedies and travesties, belongs to all of us, that we have something in common as Americans.”
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  • As money tightens, the humanities may increasingly return to being what they were at the beginning of the last century, when only a minuscule portion of the population attended college: namely, the province of the wealthy.That may be unfortunate but inevitable, Mr. Kronman said. The essence of a humanities education — reading the great literary and philosophical works and coming “to grips with the question of what living is for” — may become “a great luxury that many cannot afford.”
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