After months of bullshit, Janet Yellen is getting her job. The New York Times reports that she'll definitely be nominated at 3 pm Wednesday by President Obama, who was previously said to be more comfortable with the delightful Larry Summers. Yellen is currently Vice Chair and will be the first female chair of the…
Barring an extraordinary event that CHANGES EVERYTHING, Scandal season finale-style, President Obama will almost 100% for sure be nominating Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen to the post Ben Bernanke is vacating.
On Sunday, Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration for Federal Reserve chairman after weeks of speculation and controversy that he would be chosen over Janet Yellen for a position many said he'd be a horrible, sexist fit for. But now that Summers is out, what does that mean for Yellen, who could be named…
Lawrence "Larry" Summers is the front-runner to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve when he steps down in January, even though Janet Yellen is more qualified — and doesn't think women are bad at math because they have puny ladybrains and selfishly choose to stay home and raise children. Why?…
It turns out there's a perfectly reasonable explanation behind the glaring under-representation of women in science- and math-related fields and, despite what Larry Summers would have you believe, it has absolutely nothing to do with aptitude — it's all about conditioning, specifically, the manner and frequency with…
The title of a new book about Barack Obama's presidency is Confidence Men. It suggests, among other revelations, that Obama only had confidence in men.
The Times's John Tierney is the latest of several to take the Larry Summers tack of questioning women's natural aptitude for science. Here's what's wrong with this argument, in three easy points that even the simplest ladybrain can understand.
"I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent." Thus spake — or rather emailed — a Harvard Law student, angering Black Law Student Associations and general non-racists nationwide.
While the Sunday shows rage around us, Moe and I call for Geithner's head, Larry Summers' ass, parse the Brangelina break-up reports and Joan Allen's necklace-of-horror, and, finally, debate which, if any, Republicans we'd allow to examine our vaginas.
No sooner did Barack Obama nominate Dr. Regina Benjamin to be the next Surgeon General than people started talking about whether her weight should disqualify her from public office.
Ever since ex-Harvard President Lawrence Summers said that women are not succeeding in math and science careers because of innate biological differences, there have been numerous articles written, some supporting Summers and some trashing him. Though no one has come to a definitive conclusion, everyone agrees that…
