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December 30, 2009
The Economist: Working U.S. Women Officially Rule.
Robert Palmer once sang, persuasively and with brio, that "the women are smarter". We'd add braver, and more motivated. It's bracing to hear we may have new heroes and leaders. Just stay focused on merit. Some worry that the frightened U.S. male worker is steadily losing Moxie, Mojo, and the Ability to Think and Act on His Own. So this is good news. See at this week's The Economist the cover piece "We did it!":
At a time the world is short of causes for celebration, here is a candidate: within the next few months women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce.
Women already make up the majority of university graduates in the OECD countries and the majority of professional workers in several rich countries, including the United States. Women run many of the world’s great companies, from PepsiCo in America to Areva in France.
Rosie the Riveter, now in her eighties, has arrived.
Image: The Economist (from J. Howard Miller's WWII poster "We Can Do It!")
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Charon QC's Christmas Art
CQC aims to add paintings through New Year's Eve.
We don't understand the Art or the Context, but it did put us in a holly jolly mood. But the "F**kART" series? We'll noodle that awhile.
Never law cattle, always original, CQC makes us like the state of being alive, curious and thinking, and to want more of it.
Christmas ‘09 (2009)
Oil on canvas
Charonasso
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Real Heros: John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin, author, historian and civil rights figure, died this past year at the age of 94. Franklin wrote From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, a classic first published in 1947. He taught at Fisk, St. Augustine's, Howard, Brooklyn College, Chicago, and finally Duke, where he taught history to undergraduates, and served for seven years as a Professor of Legal History at the law school. He wrote, published and lectured into his nineties.
John Hope Franklin (1915-2009)
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