Scroll down to the end of the diary for a brief guide to the confirmation hearings process, with biographies & photos of the three Black women judges considered to be on the shortlist for nomination to the United States Supreme Court bench.
Another cause of some occupational gender gaps? In a small (n=3,000) bi-national survey portraying 10 scenarios with a character making an ethically questionable decision, college students were asked to rate how ethical the action was and what percentage of investment managers they believe would act in the same way. By a statistically significant margin, US female college students ranked the characters’ actions as more unethical than did their male counterparts. Likewise, that they thought investment managers would take the same action.
The researcher authoring this article ---Tyler Jensen, PhD, male, Assistant Professor of Finance, Iowa State University since 2014, published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance, among others--- mansplains that this means that, compared to the men, the female students “perceived a larger discrepancy between their own ethical views and what they believe about people in the investment field.”
For many years, Jensen says, universities and professional organizations have kinda failed to get more women into finance careers compared to other fields. He says researchers and women’s advocates cite the same obstacles as those known in many fields, but Jensen believes that silly little female college students don't realize "the rigorous ethical standards employed by professional organizations such as the Code of Ethics-standards-of-conduct-guidance of the CFA Institute.
Evidently, this man needs it womansplained to him that female college students are quite capable of forming their views based upon news and history, so they recognize what he might be too young and too similar to his male survey respondents to get: [a] Codes of Ethics & Standards of Conduct don't affect how top-dog execs run an industry, and [b] yeah — read your own data, Jensen — there's probly a large discrepancy between American female college students' ethical views and what everyone in the U.S. and beyond has SEEN about the ethics of the investment field. E.g., 2008 onward.
Why would women, if they have any choice, choose to work alongside men as sexist, paternalistic, and self-deluded or outright dishonest, as this dude?
I have known some very decent men in that industry, But they don’t run it. And they’re not who undermined and repealed Glass-Steagall. Dr Jensen, please hand your Code of Ethics & Standards of Conduct Guidance to your proctologist to position where the sun don’t shine. Then maybe you’ll start to get a clue.
In Other News
In Australia, women comprise over 80% of the eldercare workforce. They are culturally, professionally, and linguistically diverse, and routinely over-worked and underpaid, in an increasingly understaffed field, with need growing due to both covid and aging populations. This appears to be the situation in most western and wealthy countries, by the way, and often attracts jobless women from poorer countries to go to those richer ones, to be able to send money home, or even just to lighten their family’s economic struggle back home and get by on their own.
from CNN Afghani universities reopen to female students but with strict rules on mixing.
Afghanistan's public universities opened on Wednesday with female students allowed back on campus for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year. The Taliban administration has not officially announced its plan for female university students, but education officials said women were permitted to attend classes on the condition they were separated from male students.
Khalil Ahmad Bihsudwal, the head of Nangarhar University, told Reuters male and female students at the institution would attend separate classes.
A female medical student at the university, who asked not be named for security reasons, said classes had been split by gender, but it was not clear if women could be taught by male lecturers or interact with male students outside the classroom….
The Taliban’s recent abduction of 40 people, and gang rape of eight women, has not captured Western media attention. But activists inside Afghanistan point to worrying levels of violence…
The women who survived the gang rape were subsequently killed by their families. The fact that the women had been raped violated a societal honor code called Pashtunwalli, which prohibits women from engaging in sex outside of marriage.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that some of the women they arrested “remain detained because their male relatives have not yet come to escort them.”
News of the attack is circulating among various Afghan communities and some local media, according to several Afghan women’s rights activists...
Canada Prosecutors ask Alberta Court of Appeal to increase sentence for a Calgary father who kidnapped his daughter to his family in Iraq in 2018.
...In June 2018, Zainab Mahdi allowed her ex-husband [Ali Al-Aazawi
] to take their [then 10-year-old] daughter[Zahraa] to Egypt for [the summer. Instead, he], took her to Iraq so that his family could have complete control over her… ... police recorded a conversation between him and his ex-wife [while he was in Iraq during which] he said he would allow his daughter to return on the condition he have sole custody … [Next day, he] flew back to Canada [alone, and was arrested] at the Toronto airport…
Last [year, he] was convicted of abduction [in violation of] a court order, but acquitted of the more serious [kidnapping charge, and given] a two-year sentence. [With time served, he would be free in one year.] ...Prosecutors are asking the Alberta Court of Appeal to increase the sentence [listing grounds on which they allege] the judge erred, including that the sentence was disproportionate to the gravity of the crime... Al Aazawi's degree of responsibility … and that the trial judge erred in his analysis of the aggravating and mitigating factors.
Al Aazawi's lawyers have also filed an appeal, asking the province's top court to lower his sentence.
[Zahraa’s mother ... says her only focus is reuniting with Zahraa, now 14 years old. “I want my daughter back and I fight to bring my daughter back … My life has no value without her…."
12-photo slideshow accompanies Kaiser Family Foundation statistical findings that state abortion limits and bans disproportionately impact women of color of all heritages, e.g., In Mississippi, people of color are 44% of the population but 80% of women receiving abortions, in Texas, 59% and 74% respectively, Louisiana 42% and 72%. Cathy Torres of the Frontera Fund, a Texas organization that helps with abortion costs, concludes:<big> “Abortion restrictions are racist.”</big>
On back-and-forth appeal in Tennessee, on Wednesday, reinstatement again of a ban on abortion for reasons of prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, or because of the race or gender of the fetus.
...6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the request by the Tennessee attorney general’s office to reverse course and temporarily allow the so-called reason ban to be enforced. The 6th Circuit had blocked that provision in September after previously allowing it to go into effect in 2020…
...Attorneys representing the plaintiffs, which include reproductive rights advocates and health clinics that provide abortions, criticized Wednesday’s ruling.
“Pregnant people are the ones best suited to make decisions about their own pregnancies, and politicians should not get to interrogate a person’s reasons for seeking an abortion,” Rabia Muqaddam, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “These bans are blatantly unconstitutional.”
A review of research on cannabis for gynecologic pain found only limited past investigation, despite that women have long reported this use, or asked about it. The review, and a previously published description of patient usage for symptoms of gynecologic malignancies, are both linked and briefly discussed in this article, also an Australian study on more general use, and the recent meta-analysis of adverse outcomes of usage during pregnancy.
From Rewire via FB:<big><big>Abortion Aftercare 101:</big> What You (or a loved one) should have on hand for after an abortion.</big>
Hate Crimes Up in Los Angeles
The city ... hit a grim record last year, recording a 56% spike in hate crimes. There were 594 reported crimes in which a victim was targeted based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender.
“This is the highest recorded number of hate crimes in any city in the United States this century and very well may be the highest in Los Angeles ever,” said Brian Levin, Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
Last year’s total represents an 82% rise from the 326 reported in the pre-pandemic year of 2019...
CDC research As of October 2021,
Gay and lesbian adults had higher COVID-19 vaccination rates than heterosexual adults. Additionally, gay and lesbian adults were more likely to be concerned about COVID-19 and to believe in the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
<big>Research Vaccine hesitancy increases the more there’s been childhood trauma.</big>
...traumatic events in childhood ... undermine trust, including domestic violence, substance abuse in the home, or neglect,
[Even though] it is by no means the only reason people choose not to get vaccinated … Understanding how such childhood adversity can affect people may help when discussing vaccines, and in understanding resistance to what is a complex medical issue and one that requires considerable trust. What can appear routine to [some people] may be a difficult leap of faith especially for those who have poorer experiences of trusting even within family settings…
Transgenerational Legacy from young boys’ smoking — large study.
Granddaughters and great granddaughters of men who started to smoke cigarettes before puberty are apt to have more body fat than expected, a transgenerational analysis shows…
...”From published information on the ways in which animals have been shown to also demonstrate transgenerational influences, I would suggest that exposures to substances such as pesticides, or traumatic events such as abusive family homes, may well be shown to have demonstrable consequences down the generations," [said lead author Dr. Jean Golding of Bristol University, UK]...
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The19th: Stalking survivors, most of them female, often suffer the impacts longterm, in silence. “We still don’t know how to stop it.” Nearly 1 in 3 women and about 1 in 6 men are stalked at some point during their lifetimes.
...Stalking, or repeated conduct that would cause a reasonable person to be afraid, including threats, non-consensual communication or physical proximity, has long been an under-researched, under-reported and under-convicted crime — and experts are worried that the outlook for survivors has still not improved.
Being stalked can erode a person’s sense of safety, trust in others and well-being as they fear being harmed or that their loved ones will be harmed. Surviving stalking, and struggling with feelings of shame surrounding it, are linked to symptoms associated with PTSD, depression and anxiety. Dealing with its aftermath can drain resources and future opportunities, lead to severed social connections, and heightened isolation….
BUT GOD DIDN’T SAY THAT: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY MEMBERS TALK ABOUT GOD AND ABORTION. "Sam Bee sits down with Jaime Manson, Rafa Kidvai, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg to learn how their counterparts on the right have successfully melted American minds to make us believe that God outlawed abortion. God didn’t. God’s actually pretty chill.
from CNN South Dakota bans trans women and girls from same-gender school sports teams
Transgender women and girls in South Dakota will not be able to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender at accredited schools and colleges after the state's GOP governor [Kristi Noem “gratefully” signed] a "fairness in women's sports" law on Thursday…
...SB 46 stipulates that "only female students, based on their biological sex, may participate in any team, sport, or athletic event designated as being for females, women, or girls." The legislation defines "biological sex" as the sex listed on a student's birth certificate that was "issued at or near the time of the student's birth." The bill is set to go into effect this summer…
<big>BUT Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation</big>
Check out your birth certificate and you’ll see a designation for sex. When you were born, [medical staff] assigned you the “male” or “female” label based on a look at your genitalia [a standard practice In the U.S.] for more than a century. But sex designation is not as simple as a glance …. Instead, the overwhelming evidence shows that sex is not binary... the terms “male” and “female” don’t fully capture the complex biological, anatomical and chromosomal variations [possible]. That’s why calls are growing to remove sex designation from birth certificates, including a recent recommendation from the American Medical Association….
...Variations in genital anatomy [alone are more common than we] might think; in 0.1 to 0.2% of births annually. In the U.S., that’s about 4,000 to 8,000 babies each year… [People can be born] with both a vagina and testes, and ... without any … some people with vaginas still produce significant amounts of testosterone [yet that doesn’t] necessarily make someone male… Even karyotyping … doesn’t tell the whole story ... [while] we typically expect people to either have XX or XY pairs of sex chromosomes, many people have variations that do not fit either category….
In short, human diversity has demonstrated that the binary categories of male and female are incomplete and inaccurate. Sex designation, rather than “two sizes fit all,” is on a spectrum. Up to 1.7% of the U.S. population – that’s more than 5 million Americans – have an anatomy and physiology that present intersex traits….
Beijing U.S. Women’s Hockey forward Abby Roque is a first-time Olympian — and a pioneer for Indigenous people. She is the first Native American to play for the women’s hockey team, as one of no more than a handful of Indigenous people to compete at any Winter Games for Team USA.
Washington State Rep. Debra Lekanoff and State Attorney General Bob Ferguson propose a bill to disseminate critical alert information more quickly and effectively for missing Indigenous people.
Alice Looney, a Yakama tribal citizen, aunty and the beloved youngest sibling of six sisters and five brothers, was reported missing on Aug. 16, 2004. Her skeletal remains were found more than 15 months later, under a log in Satus Creek.
Now her niece, Rosalie Fish, is among advocates of a bill that would establish an alert system specifically for missing and murdered Indigenous women and people much like Amber and Silver alerts.
Creating visibility
“This bill addresses the lack of resources and negligence that missing Indigenous people’s cases have faced thus far...”
Albuquerque On February 14, Cynthia Chavez Lamar will be the first Native American woman Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
...An enrolled member at San Felipe Pueblo, Chavez Lamar is an accomplished curator, author and scholar whose research has focused on Southwest Native art. Early in her career, she was a museum intern and later an associate curator from 2000 to 2005.
“Dr. Chavez Lamar is at the forefront of a growing wave of Native American career museum professionals,” said Lonnie Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian. “They have played an important role in changing how museums think about their obligations to Native communities and to all communities."
Chavez Lamar, whose ancestry also includes Hopi, Tewa and Navajo, will oversee the museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York and the Cultural Resources Center in Maryland, which houses the museum’s collections and its curatorial and repatriation offices...
...The Senate Judiciary Committee [collects] documents, records and background information [for the] hearings......“If the person has been before the committee seeking approval for a circuit court, then the committee knows quite a bit about that person...
During the proceedings, the nominee will answer questions about their work experiences, judicial record and interpretation of constitutional law. Witnesses both for and against the nominee will also appear. The Judiciary Committee then votes on whether to recommend that the full Senate confirm the nominee, reject them, or proceed with no recommendation either way. The full Senate will then debate the nomination before proceeding to a vote….
Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, who was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in June, is widely considered the front-runner. Before this position she was a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., ... served on Pres. Obama’s Sentencing Commission … and worked as an assistant federal public defender...
Leondra Kruger, 45, is an associate justice with the California Supreme Court ...since 2014. [Earlier], she worked under the Obama administration as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general [including arguing] 12 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. She also worked as a deputy assistant attorney general.
J. Michelle Childs, 55, is a Southe Carolina federal district judge whose qualifications have been touted by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a powerful Democratic figure in So. Carolina politics whose endorsement of Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign helped propel him to victory in the state’s primary. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, also of South Carolina, sang Childs’s praises, telling CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “I can’t think of a better person ... to consider to the Supreme Court.” Childs [was previously] a state circuit judge...
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