Becky Blab

Thanks mom for sending me this blog post by Suzanne Vega on her new song, “Daddy Is White.” You can listen to it, too.

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The Jaipur Times today has an article called ‘Penning their way to freedom’:
Determined to find their own expression, women in Jaipur are increasingly taking up writing as a serious pursuit. Despite cultural challenges and family responsibilities, they are living their passion as successful authors. Today, most of them have to their credit, several books on [...]

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This one’s been making the rounds, but I found it here.

We lost ourselves the day we were born
Since then the search began
To find those of our family

We were confused
For we were given a family of birth
We had friends from our situation
In this funny place called “society”
We travelled
And felt the semblance of the primeval sensation [...]

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Some new research featured in the NYT on the gender gap contends counterintuitively that more traditional societies have smaller gender differences than modern ones.
For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the variation is going in [...]

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The TOI has an interesting response to Sarah Palin’s nomination: the examination of political tokenism of women in India.
“A patriarchal ethos dominates both the societies, American and Indian, but they operate in different ways. In India, despite the patriarchal ethos, powerful women leaders have emerged,” says political scientist Imtiaz Ahmed.
The most famous examples are BSP [...]

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