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House Republicans admit that part of the problem in selling private accounts has been that many of their members don't exactly understand the details of Social Security. "We have to educate our own members and we haven't completely done that," says House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. With a...
Among surveyed institutions, the percentage of alumni who contribute has decreased each year since 2001. RAND’s survey does not explain the downward trend, but Kaplan outlined several possible explanations in a press release outlining the results of the study.
“We tend to put blinders on to science when the explanations for behavior or social problems are distasteful or difficult,” she says. “There are many lines of research that suggest that biology plays a role in the modulation of sex differences...
But professors did offer several explanations. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori said that women’s desire to raise families had traditionally represented a barrier to their advancement in the design fields—but she expressed optimism that this might be changing.
The news story’s coverage of the meeting generated a mistaken impression of what was discussed. Several female science concentrators commented on how discouraging it is to be in nearly all-male science sections. As such, the idea of creating optional all-female sections was suggested as one...