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Jane Austen Weekly: Child Poverty in Mansfield Park

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 12.26.2012 | Books
Read More: Stress, How Children Succeed, Child Poverty, Annie-Murphy-Paul, Income Inequality, Jane Austen, Resilience, Mitt Romney, Paul Tough, Grit, Mansfield Park, Barack Obama, Books News
Susan Celia Greenfield

Mansfield Park begins with a question that is still depressingly familiar. What can be done to help a disadvantaged child?

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Perfect Bias: Why Women Underperform

Kate Baldwin | Posted 10.11.2012 | Women
Read More: Gender Bias, Girls and Math, Girls Self-Esteem, Yale Science, Mommy Wars, Debora Spar, Battle of the Sexes, Motherhood, Perfect-Madness-Motherhood-in-the-Age-of-Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Annie Murphy Paul, Women in Science, Judith Warner, Women in the Workplace, Women in Business, Stay at Home Mothers, Gender Discrimination, Women News
Kate Baldwin

According to the scientists behind the study, the result is due not to intentional marginalization, but to "subconscious cultural influences." Are we supposed to be relieved that this discrimination isn't deliberate?

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