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10. Check the Data: It’s a Man’s World

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Women Writing About Women

Women's issues and interests are being over represented, when really it's the opposite. If you speak to any woman who has been writing about women in the past hundred years, she will have come across this argument that by writing about women, she is writing about a niche subject. And the resistance increases when times are tough. So i suppose we shouldn't be that surprised that the economic recovery has been so skewed. But given it has been so heavily dominated by female jobloses, it's staggering to me that we're not gendering the recovery.

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