Positive discrimination is still discrimination

It’s a tragedy that the ugly disease of racial and gender discrimination still plagues our society. Fifty years after the civil rights movement, one can’t but help feel that not much has changed, or at the very least, not enough. Rather than defeating the very core of racism, British politicians seem content to replace [...]

Oxytocin and The “Self-Imposed” Glass Ceiling

I read a rather interesting article published in The Times last week, about Susan Pinker’s new book, about the hormone oxytocin.
It talks about a lady who was offered a high-powered promotion in her company, but turned it down because the position would destabilise her family. This sounds like a perfectly reasonable basis for turning down [...]