Elections 2012: BFP Watch Party

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Greyson

Kay S. Hymowitz
The Misunderstood Gender Gap
Women’s voting habits have less to do with their sex than the media think.
16 November 2012


Romney lost the black, Hispanic, and Asian vote, while he won the college-educated vote (though not post-grads), the votes of those making over $50,000 a year, and the votes of older Generation X-ers, Baby Boomers, and voters over 65. In other words, married women voted less as part of a sisterhood than as part of a cohort of white people holding college diplomas, earning more than $50,000 a year, and wearing reading glasses.


http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1116kh.html

Thanks for posting this Greyson. It is important to break stuff down a little more than the media and politicans like to do.

Kay Hymowitz is a bit of a controversial figure in "analyzing" data that involves women. Sometimes, she comes across as a modern day Phyllis Schafly.

She has written a few controversial books that have both some merit and some wtf moments. Her book "Manning Up: How The Rise Of Women Have Turned Men Into Boys was interesting tho difficult to read. [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Manning-Up-Rise-Women-Turned/dp/0465028365"]Amazon.com description.[/ame]


And then there are her thoughts on why the gender wage gap will never go away i.e. Women prefer the Mommy track

Women of color might have a bit of a problem with [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Caste-America-Separate-Post-Marital/dp/1566637538"]Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age [/ame]

[Greyson]

Originally Posted by Kobi

Thanks for posting this Greyson. It is important to break stuff down a little more than the media and politicans like to do.

Kay Hymowitz is a bit of a controversial figure in "analyzing" data that involves women. Sometimes, she comes across as a modern day Phyllis Schafly.

She has written a few controversial books that have both some merit and some wtf moments. Her book "Manning Up: How The Rise Of Women Have Turned Men Into Boys was interesting tho difficult to read. Amazon.com description.


And then there are her thoughts on why the gender wage gap will never go away i.e. Women prefer the Mommy track

Women of color might have a bit of a problem with Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age

Thanks Kobi. I found this article in "The City." A popular read for Urban Planners. I did not know of her writings but I do appreciate you showing me, us.

I do not always agree with stuff I post but I post it because I think there is some relevence to pieces of it. But really, I do appreciate your follow up post.

[Kobi]

The defeated GOP candidate famously disparaged Obama as the candidate of the 47 percent. Now, liberals gleefully view Mitt's final tally as poetic justice.

Got to love irony.

[Soon]

GOP Assembles All White Male Roster of House Committee Chairmen for Upcoming Congress
Neetzan Zimmerman

It was somewhat disappointing, though not particularly surprising, when House Speaker John Boehner announced yesterday that the GOP's 19 House committee chairs will be occupied exclusively by white men starting next year.

For one thing, the current Congress has only a single minority chairperson — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a Hispanic woman.

For another thing, the GOP itself is composed almost entirely of white men: Of the 234 (or 235) Republicans that make up the 113th Congress, only 20 are women, seven are Hispanic, and one is African-American.

Compare that with the Democrats, who, for the first time, will count white male lawmakers in the minority.

The news isn't all bad for female Republican representatives. Four of them were selected for Boehner's leadership team:

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., will be the Republican Conference Chairman, the fourth top Republican in the House, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., will be the conference's vice-chair, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., will act as conference secretary.

Still, the fact remains that Republicans aren't showing any willingness to learn from their mistakes — namely, the disregard for minorities that just cost them a presidential election.

As Rachel Maddow said of the image at the top of the post: "This is what you can clip and save for the next time someone in the beltway tells you how seriously the Republican party is taking its diversity problem this year."