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  • Discrimination, Grocery stores and Nubile Baggirls

    I'm outraged. After an exhaustive statistical study, I've uncovered a corporate prejudice which suggests systemic sexual discrimination the likes of which could be nationwide!!!!! As a frequent customer to a regional grocery store deemed superior to the Walmarts and Safeways in service (which naturally translates into higher prices), I have ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by Usama2 on November 22, 2007

  • proportion

    This finding is news to me, and I wonder if the actual data support the researchers' conclusion. People generally have a preferred finding already in mind when when they set out to do an experiment, and are never entirely unbiased about their conclusions. They might well have set out to show that coffee shops hold women customers up ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by thimk on November 13, 2007

  • Re: Unequal Service: Bars same as coffee shop

    It's the same thing that anyone other than a white male will experience most anywhere, an airline flight being a prime example. Airlines no longer overtly promise a man with their ads that sexy babes will cater to him, but vestiges of that mindset/training live on, and Korean Air seems to be reviving it - women, being ''invisible,'' have had to ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by curies on November 13, 2007

  • attacking the symptoms of misogyny with capitalist ideology

    I'm sorry, but if we wait for competition from other coffee shops to solve the problems of well-entrenched and systematized misogyny/sexism we're going to be disappointed. How long has it taken for people to change based on competition from less-gender-biased others? Answer: they haven't. Misogyny is a serious problem in this and many other ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by therollingbears on November 13, 2007