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...structural inequality inherent to acquiring these internships. Since richer students have the means to forgo wages, socioeconomic class determines, in large part, one’s ability to procure an internship. This unfair economic stratification means that poorer students and graduates often cannot afford to accept unpaid positions...
...other ways, academia has been slow to change. The sea change in professional gender roles has not come with a similarly dramatic shift in how graduate programs function. When Ph.D. candidates were married males with stay-at-home wives, they could afford to have children without derailing their careers. Now, many—and particularly many women—feel pressure to choose between family and profession or those who choose both climb the faculty ladder with their hands tied. The result is an exodus of women at every stage of the academic pipeline. The higher you climb, the fewer...
...persuaded Gavin Samms, a friend and Harvard colleague, to go to New York City with him to try to sign up some schools for a pilot program. "We didn't know anything about what we were doing," Fryer says. They couldn't afford to stay in New York, so they stayed at a hotel in the Meadowlands - a grim tract of wetlands in New Jersey. Then they drove around to pitch the idea to principals...
...Iraq and Afghanistan. "I'm this way about the health care bill," says Anna Porto, 80, a retired clerk, wagging her index and middle fingers in opposite directions. "I like that it helps the uninsured, but I don't like that we're paying for it. We can't afford it right now - we can't afford anything...
...shot on digital video, not film and not an HD digital camera. My students wouldn’t touch our equipment today—it’s outdated—but it was the best camera we could afford then. I carried the camera on a harness—a big body bracer. That way I could hold the camera at knee level and move with...