Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin is an American author and writer. She is co-founder of DoubleX, a women's site connected to the online magazine Slate. She is the co-host of the NPR podcast Invisibilia with Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller...
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.