Food for thought

http://www.michaelschoneman.com/2011/11/im-not-vegan-happy-thanksgiving.html

~ "P.S.  I expect this story probably sounds trivial, but if you've ever been poor and desperate, you know how humiliating it is to ask for help from someone whom you know doesn't want to give it."

~ http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-2013.html



Benjamin Franklin Gets a Facelift

~ A survey of men and women from 1998 to 2009 shows that women 65 years of age and older have a median income that’s 25% lower than that of their male counterparts, according to Bloomberg. Even worse, the federal study showed that women of that age group are twice as likely as men to be living at or below the poverty line."


~ http://business.time.com/2012/07/26/retirement-age-women-twice-as-likely-as-men-to-live-in-poverty-whats-going-on/

http://www.michaelschoneman.com/2011/11/im-not-vegan-happy-thanksgiving.html


~ "....gets hit on all the time by dudes who come in and act like they've never seen a circle-shaped cake before. But she's a little reticent, so usually she does her twitchy, eye-rolly, 'Uh, time to make the fonuts'-type dance, and she walks away. She just got out of a relationship with 'a high-profile chef' they act like they're not going to name for a while, and then she accidentally maybe lets it slip that okay, you dragged it out of her, it's..."

~ http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/08/11/211060932/the-real-foodwives-bravo-found-some-more-rich-ladies-who-gossip

http://southernfoodways.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html

 ~ "Contrary to conventional wisdom, researchers say it can hurt women to ask for more money. That's because when women do request either a raise or a higher starting salary they are more likely than men to be perceived as greedy, demanding or just not very nice."

"Neale said she thinks it is largely subconscious, and most bosses probably don't even know that they are judging women more harshly."

"When Neale is negotiating, she said she's found that she is more successful if she asks for a package of resources that will help make her employer better—rather than just more money for herself.
In academia, she said, that may mean she also shows how more resources for her research, plus additional teaching assistants, will help the university meet its goal of producing more high-profile results.

  'Then I'm not getting greedy,' she said. 'I'm doing things that help the organization.'"

~ For women, asking for a raise...

http://thegraphicsfairy.com/retro-clip-art-money-moms-women/

~ "asking is complicated"

~ http://amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/65423995378/whats-the-most-important-thing-you-have-learned-this