Linda ScottInsult to Injury: The Media and the Birth BustThe impact of today’s empty cradle goes far beyond a generic reduction in labor supply. The New York Times has discovered that there is a fertility decline i...
Linda ScottThe Economics of ExclusionI have had quite a few requests for the slides in the talk I gave at the UN yesterday, prior to the handover of the Power Shift Call to Action. The text and ...
Linda ScottUnspoken Barrier to Girls’ Education: Sexual Violence on the PathA woman walking alone is often, to my eyes, an image of vulnerability. Why do we not see that early adolescent girls, even in a group, are vulnerable when th...
Linda ScottWater Hyacinth Pads and Other Innovations in Sanitary CareBetsy Teutsch has a site called the Women’s Global Toolkit, where she writes about important and affordable objects that empower women. A recent article pro...
Linda Scott“Suck it Up and Deal With It. This is Your Life Now.”Me and Susan (right) getting on the bus to camp, 1966. My sisters and I all have a recurring nightmare where someone has tricked us into getting on the Walde...
Linda Scott“Patropoly” in Practice: Clustering in Family Friendly SpecialtiesThis is the final post in a guest series on the exclusionary practices of American medicine. I think if you read through from the first post, you can see th...
Linda Scott“Patropoly” in Practice: Medical School AdmissionsThis post begins the series I promised on exclusive practices in US medicine. Bear in mind, as you read, that the male applicants are not being screened in ...
Linda Scott“Patropoly” in Practice: Medicine in AmericaDoctors are powerful people in the United States–perhaps this leads the men in charge to think they are above the law. So I have invited anonymous blogs abo...
Linda Scott“Something Special is Happening in Austin.”Wendy Davis' pink shoes, worn to help her stand through a 13 hour fillibuster, have already become emblematic of this historic standoff. Over the past two da...
Linda ScottEqual Pay Around the WorldOn Thursday last week, I gave a talk at Nuffield College here in Oxford, titled “Workplace Practices and the Family: Holding the Private Sector Accountable....
Linda ScottThe Gender of Necessity: Beer and Lipstick in Rural UgandaAn array of ordinary goods used to test whether the notion of “necessity” is an expression of gender power in Uganda. People often talk easily about the diff...
Linda ScottStarting with the Violence: Ending Gender Inequality in Emerging MarketsI signed a letter that appeared in the Guardian today, along with Lady Justice Ang’awa of Kenya, Rodrigo Botero of Colombia, Baroness Mary Goudie, Dean Ngair...
Linda ScottSexual SovereigntyThe cover of Hobbes’ Leviathan shows the sovereign state as a towering giant composed of many individuals. This is not what I have in mind. I have been using...
Linda ScottProduction and ReproductionIn the earliest years of economics as a discipline, there was clear recognition of the central confluences of the human economy: the nexus between productio...
Linda ScottPregnancy, Pensions, and Poverty: OECD ReflectionsI admit I had not realized this: young mothers who take paid parental leave in Europe may be sacrificing their retirement by reducing their pensions. Someh...
Linda ScottAmerican Cultural Conservatives: Still Losing the WarI was in Mexico City on November 6th, at a big international meeting where everyone seemed to be watching the US election with their breath held. Just as th...
Linda ScottSanitary Pad Study Appears; Voice of America ReportsThe academic report of our sanitary pad work has now appeared in PloS. The whole team is very pleased about this because it will extend the reach of our wor...
Linda ScottImportant Meeting in London Today: Setting New MDGsBeginning today in London, a “high level panel” will start work on formulating the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals for the world. At the bottom of th...
Linda ScottRenegade Grannies say “F–k you!” to Todd AkinEight older women, though probably not still sexually active themselves, are standing up for women’s reproductive rights through a youtube video that is quic...
Linda ScottIndian Sanitary Pad Entrepreneur, NGO Resistance, and A. C. Nielsen StudySeveral colleagues have sent me the story of India’s Arunachalam Muruganantham, who wore his own sanitary pads, along with a contraption designed to mimic ha...