The Game Of Wages
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 25th, 2013
Good morning!
Zen Lill: Next week would be good. I HOPE all is well with you!
Alycedale: How are you? I HOPE all is good. Thanks for your un-recomendation on the book. :) I agree with you and the other girls…man is not the be all to emulate. That is one thing I do not agree with Sandberg. Making women more like men is not how this world is going to benefit. We already know that. Why would we want women to be more like men when the world is so messed up from the things men do, and don’t do?
Although my definition of “lean in” for men seems to be different from yours, I like your suggestion of her book to be about advising men NOT to “lean in” too much. In other words, my words not necessarily yours, “Get the fuck out of the way.” - Ya know…”Make way and make space for women to blossom.” – There, I can say it nicely too. Either way, I doubt most men would listen and heed the advice though. As Lisa said, “If women want it to change, they will have to change it because men are happy the way it is.”
However, one thing I do agree with is that women need to recognize their value and to learn to negotiate better. Additionally, women need to recognize the value of our sisters, be better supporters of women all around…as friends, business associates, in political positions, etc. So, I suppose my definition of “lean in” is different from Sandberg too. I want women to “lean in” and support each other so that we can rise and take our positions, because it certainly isn’t going to be given way lightly and without a fight - that’s the game-changer I’m HOPEing for.
Social Butterfly: How is the new job going? I HOPE you are loving it.
I thought with all the talk about women in the workplace this would be suitable for today’s post:
What the Pay Gap Means for Women & Their Families
Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks the additional days into 2013 that a woman needs to work just to equal what a man made in 2012. The pay gap is real — and really persistent.
The amount that women lose as a result of the pay gap doesn’t just hurt them. Their families also pay the price for this lost income. Here’s what the median pay gap means over the course of just one year: $10,784. The total cost to a woman and her family over the course of her entire working life is staggering: $431,360.
Click through to check out an interactive version of this graphic showing how the pay gap affects women’s lives:
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April 25th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
I agree entirely with you Michelle. Women need to learn to value what we bring to the table. And as you said we need to stick together.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
11 WAYS TO LIVE TO 100
Our modern day version of the search for a fountain of youth takes place in Big Pharma’s research and development labs, as they vie to make the pill or potion that will stave off the ravages of age. Is there a better, more natural way?
I’ve been seeing lots of great research focusing on secrets to longer life. Here are some of the best that I’ve found. These very simple and low-tech steps can make enormous impact on your health and longevity.
1. Run for Your Life
People who run in midlife and beyond live longer, report researchers in the August 11, 2008, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The authors concluded that vigorous exercise such as running at middle and older ages was associated with reduced disability in later life and a higher survival rate. Older runners (50 years and over) remained more fit than older people who did not run, and were about twice as likely to be alive after 20 years.
Especially as we grow older, exercise is essential to keeping the body strong and supple, boosting blood supply to the brain, maintaining bone density and controlling stress and anxiety.
Of course, any physical activity is better than none — and the more, the better. Try to fit in at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise — brisk walking, bicycling, swimming, dancing — most days of the week.
2. Daily Brain Training
It’s not just physical exercise that pays dividends over time — successful aging requires a commitment to brain fitness as well. To stay sharp and stave off cognitive decline, challenge your mind as well as your muscles, urges Robert N. Butler, MD, president and CEO of the International Longevity Center and author of The Longevity Revolution.
The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life. His suggestions for good brain workouts include learning a new language or playing a musical instrument. Other ideas include doing daily puzzles, such as crossword or Sudoku, and joining discussion groups on books, current events, religion or other topics you find stimulating.
Also useful — a growing number of electronic programs, ranging from a Nintendo game system called Brain Age (brainage.com) to a computer program by Posit Science called Brain Fitness Program Classic (positscience.com).
3. Food for Thought
Specific substances shown to help fight aging include resveratrol (in grapes, grape juice and red wine) and other similar polyphenols (in blueberries, raspberries and cranberries).
These help discourage inflammation, which is believed to lie at the root of cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and more.
Other youth-enhancing foods and beverages include walnuts, strawberries, pomegranate juice, green tea, sweet potatoes and spinach. These will fortify wellness and longevity.
4. Flaxseed, Fish and Other Sources of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids support heart, brain, joint and skin health and more. One of them — docosahexaenoic acid or DHA — may help prevent cognitive decline, and in animal studies shows promise in limiting development of the amyloid plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Good food sources of omega-3 fatty acids are fish (salmon, tuna, herring, etc.), flaxseeds and walnuts. Supplements are another way to go — best bet is either Nordic Naturals or the fish oil line from Pharmax.
5. Turn to Turmeric
Like omega-3 fatty acids, turmeric confers cognitive benefits — its main biologically active phytochemical component is antioxidant-rich curcumin, which has been shown to reduce inflammation and oxidative damage and improve learning and memory.
Interestingly, Alzheimer’s disease is rarer in India, where curry is frequently consumed, than in other cultures.
6. Cut Calories
Research indicates staying slim may add years of healthy living to your life. Excess weight has been shown time and time again to lead to all sorts of life-threatening diseases.
In contrast, calorie restriction has been known to slow aging in animals, and a new study in the June 2008 issue of Rejuvenation Research suggests that it may have the same impact on humans.
According to researchers at Washington University, reducing your intake by just 300 to 500 calories a day (skip the extra slice of pepperoni pizza for lunch or forego the chocolate cake for dessert) may slow the aging process by lowering levels of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine.
Learn more about this approach at the Web site of the Calorie Restriction Society (calorierestriction.org).
7. Let the Sunshine Vitamin In
Vitamin D plays an ever more important role in our health as we age — yet an increasing number of Americans are deficient in it, says Daily Health News contributing medical editor Andrew L. Rubman, ND.
It’s a phenomenon he blames on the sun avoidance urged by dermatologists and sunscreen marketers, which has the unintended result of blocking our ability to synthesize vitamin D from the sun. Lack of the sunshine vitamin may not only harm the bones, it may influence your risk of heart disease and certain cancers.
One study in the June 9, 2008, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine linked low levels of vitamin D to increased heart attack risk, and another in the June 23 edition found that a vitamin D deficiency more than doubled the risk of death from any cause.
For protection against vitamin D deficiency, Dr. Rubman suggests 15 minutes of sunshine daily (hold the sunscreen). Dietary sources of vitamin D include salmon, tuna, eggs and enriched dairy products.
If your doctor orders a vitamin D test and your levels are still low, he/she may also prescribe up to 2,000 IU/ daily.
8. Attack Anxiety
Anxiety is the enemy of longevity. In one study, conducted in part at Purdue University, and which included more than 1,600 men aged 43 to 91, researchers used personality tests to identify “neurotic” individuals — those who worried too much and reacted to stress negatively.
After 12 years, only half the men who measured “high” or “increasing” (meaning their anxiety levels were going up, not down, as they aged) on the neuroticism scale were still alive, as compared with about 80% of the others. These results were published in the May 2008 edition of Psychological Science.
9. Work for Living
Purpose and passion are essential. Older people need to define goals, keep busy and continue to give themselves a good reason to get out of bed each morning, Dr. Butler emphasizes.
In his view, people who like their work would most likely enjoy happier and healthier lives if they postponed retirement, or perhaps just cut back to part-time.
Alternatively, there are ways to keep your hand in, even after retirement. For example, retired journalists can teach classes at city colleges and bankers may volunteer to help people with their finances at public libraries.
10. Friends for Life
Socializing, including staying in touch with your friends and family, as well as being part of some kind of community, grows more important as you age. In fact, social isolation in seniors is a risk factor for stress, health problems and even early death.
The stress hormone cortisol contributes to damage of the hippocampus (the part of the brain essential to the formation of memories, and the region most impacted by cognitive decline).
11. Take Time to Play
While work is important, so is play. There’s truth in that old saying: It’s important to stop and smell the roses.
Throughout life, make time to take vacations, enjoy lazy weekends, laugh with friends, play with grandchildren and continue to build the memories that go into making a long life a good one.
Source(s):
Robert N. Butler, MD, president and CEO of the International Longevity Center (PublicAffairs).
Dr. Butler was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, which he directed from 1976 to 1982. Andrew L. Rubman, ND, director, Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines, Southbury, Connecticut.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:26 pm
Obama has no balls. The republicans are claiming that between Benghazi and Boston it shows that we are going backwards and the protection is failing.
This is the time for Obama to stand up to these hypocritical liars.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
I agree with you Curtis. The republicans are out there insisting on Obama taking action against Syria because they are heavily invested in the military industrial stocks.
The republicans stand to make a huge profit if we go to war with Syria.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
I guess we all know what he got from his white side, tiny balls. The guy is gutless when it comes to calling the republicans what they are LSOS.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Hafa adai, we need to have a curbside recycling program for the residents of Guam.
Guam needs to act to prevent material that coud be recycled from being thrown out and eventually deposited in the landfill. Piles and piles of paper, bottles, cans and more accumulate throughout the day, It is being deposited in the landfill when it could be recycled.
April 25th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Once again we learn that the police just lie. They unloaded on Dzhorkan and he was unarmed. Then the Chief of police went on TV and claimed that he fired on the police and the resulting sustained gunfire we heard was the police answering his firing on them.
They just lied. The boat owner open the boat cover and saw the kid lying there unarmed and defenseless. He relayed the info to the police, they told him to retreat and then spent the next 4 hours letting the kid bleed to death.
When that didn’t work they blew away his hearing with bombs and then shot him full of holes.
Then they spent the next 12 hours congratulating themselves on a job well done. That is the extent of white boys with guns and badges.
White america is so used to giving the power to the police to subdue the OTWs so they can maintain their Affirmative Action benefits without any more than oral protest from OTWs that they now have to accept that their dogs are now biting them.
Hence we get a group of trigger happy idiots shooting at anything they please.
April 25th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Me, I’m sick of hearing that they were planning to drive to NY to blow up a bomb in Times Square.
They were inept terrorists who could have been caught before they did what they did. They weren’t caught because we had no national gun registration to alert the proper authorities.
And we had no gunpowder registration to tag the person using it to detonate an explosive device. Both of these loses are the result of legislation by the same republications calling Obama careless.
April 25th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
As a white woman I am sorry to say that if it depends on us sticking together to vote for equality, it won’t happen. My hope is that female OTWs will take the lead as they have in the past and motivate us to get behind them.
April 25th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
The problem is most conservatives want a police state. They are authoritarians at heart. They want to make Christianity the law of the land, enforcing the Old Testament precepts of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, leaving out the loving forgivness of Jesus.
Conservatives reject the teaching of science in schools, saying it undermines parental authority. They want the Ten Commandments to hang from court rooms, to crawl into bedrooms to supervisor what goes on there, and they want to enforce dress codes outlawing hijabs.
Of course, they have little respect for the Bill of Rights, except for the second amendment, which they worship. Ironically, they claim they want small government.
April 25th, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Dear California MoveOn member,
An oil industry insider recently told Politico that if California—known as a progressive and Democratic state—moves forward with fracking, “it will be a lot harder to paint the process as an extreme process that risks the health and safety of individuals.”1
Fracking—injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach previously inaccessible oil and gas—is an extreme process, with catastrophic results. Maybe you’ve seen the footage of people in Pennsylvania lighting their tap water on fire after it’s been contaminated with chemicals used in fracking. Fracking threatens our water, our air, our farms, and our health—and contributes to global warming.2
There’s huge opposition to fracking in California, and our elected officials are tuning in. But standing up to the oil and gas industries isn’t easy, and our representatives are unlikely to do it unless they hear from constituents.
That’s why this week, MoveOn members across the state are launching campaigns to pressure their local elected officials to support a ban on fracking. A team is forming in the San Francisco area to urge Assembly Member Tom Ammiano and other local elected officials to publicly support a fracking ban in California—can you join this new team?
Click here to join a team in the San Francisco area to get Assembly Member Ammiano—and other local elected officials—to publicly support a fracking ban in California.
Joining a team is easy, fun, and effective.
After you sign up, you’ll get an email introducing you to the MoveOn members in your area who also signed up to join the team, along with resources and materials to help you get started.
If we let every elected official in the state know that Californians want a ban on fracking, we can protect our state and send a signal to the rest of the country that fracking is not the answer. And we’re more effective when we work together.
Click here to join a team in the San Francisco area to get Assembly Member Ammiano—and other local elected officials—to publicly support a fracking ban in California.
Thanks for all you do.
–Victoria, Matt, Stefanie, Justin, and the rest of the team
April 25th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Me, I’m listening to Obama speak to the city of West Texas after their disaster. He told them that their government would be there to help them recover their loses after the media left. He got a modest response because they couldn’t bring themselves to clap for a black man.
Racism is just what it is and you can see it in the people of West, TX. Ironically Obama was lauding the fact that it is a town that proudly maintains his history. If he went through that town without his entourage, he couldn’t get waited on without being called a nigger or having his food spit into.
As far as I am concerned that explosion couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of racists. Hearing a black man saying “a nation needs towns like West” gave me chills.
April 25th, 2013 at 2:14 pm
#10 Political Pundit:
Then how come smaller more conservative towns have more freedom than big city liberal ones?
You couldn’t even order a large drink in New York without the police state getting involved.
Case in point the example we are discussing right now. The liberals are trying to take away rights, major ones
The conservatives are defending them
April 25th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Fox “news” does more harm to America than al Qaeda could ever dream of doing. And Fox does it daily.
April 25th, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Conservatives treat the Constitution like they treat the Bible.They treasure what they agree with then trash and disregard what they disagree with.
April 25th, 2013 at 3:01 pm
TM #13
Are you speaking of the small conservative towns where gays can not hold hands and blacks were not let into restaurants until 50 or so years ago?
Are you speaking of the small conservative towns that reject the teaching of science? Or that want to limit reproductive rights or outlaw the teaching of sex education in schools?
April 25th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
The problem is most liberals want an all-powerful state. They are totaliarians at heart. They want to make humanism the law of the land, stamping out all traces of religion — and all forms of “political incorrectness” — from public life, taking the humanity out of their humanism.
Liberals infuse their political agenda into everything that is taught in the schools, science included, saying government “owns” our children.
They want their speech codes to dicatate what we can and can not say in public or in the workplace, to have the government force sex education on our children in the schools, subsidize contraception, and define what is or is not sexually normative, and they want to enforce dress codes outlawing religious or pro-Second Amendment statements.
Of course, they have little respect for the Bill of Rights, except for the unwritten “right to an abortion”, which they worship. Ironically, while advocating expansive government, they claim they love liberty.