Jamie Bernstein

Jamie Bernstein is a data, stats, policy and economics nerd who sometimes pretends she is a photographer. She is @uajamie on Twitter and Instagram. If you like my work here at Skepchick & Mad Art Lab, consider sending me a little sumthin' in my TipJar: @uajamie
  • Feminism

    It Is Completely Unsurprising That Women Avoid Promotions at Work

    A group of women researchers at Harvard recently released the results of a study in PNAS with the title “Compared to men, women view professional advancement as equally attainable, but less desirable.” As the study title suggests, through a series of surveys they determined that women are less likely to desire a promotion or a high-powered position in their careers. This…

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  • Feminism

    Pro-Life Advocates Don’t Actually Care About the Life of a Fetus

    I’ve been thinking about the fight for women’s healthcare a lot lately, mainly due to the influx of messages we’ve been getting to Skepchick in the past month virtually throwing a temper tantrum about Rebecca’s video “Planned Parenthood is Not Selling Baby Parts, You Fucking Idiots.” Although I am firmly on the pro-choice side, I always try to understand those…

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    One-Star Reviews for The Handmaid’s Tale

    This year’s SkepchickCON at CONvergence is dystopia themed, so in order to get ready for all my panels I’ve been reading and rereading dystopian classics. The Handmaid’s Tale, the speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, was one of the top books on my list that was due for a reread. When I had finished reading it, I headed on over to…

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    A Survey Did Not Prove Men Want Dependent Wives

    Surveys are funny things. You can get some interesting revelations out of a well-done survey, but if the survey has significant flaws you can also end up with a barrage of information that seems interesting on the surface but is actually completely useless for learning anything about the human condition. Case in point, this month the Hart Research Association released…

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  • Anti-SciencePayScale Infographic showing that in 6 fields men only make a couple percentages more in wages then women in the same jobs

    Bad Chart Thursday: Redditors Prove the Gender Wage Gap is a Myth

    Ladies, you can all stop complaining about not being paid as much as men because Reddit has determined that there is no gender wage gap. Reddit user Rhiever posted in r/dataisbeautiful an article that proves the gender wage gap doesn’t exist, writing “When you compare salaries for men and women who are similarly qualified and working the same job, no…

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  • FeaturedStudy results showing that women and men were assigned equal bonuses in the non-merit condition but men got higher bonuses in the merit condition

    The Paradox of Meritocracy

    I’ve written about the gender pay gap before and every time I do I get people who respond by insisting that there is perfect equality in the workplace and any imbalances that exist must be because women have different preferences and make different choices that result in them making less money in their careers. Anyone who has ever worked for…

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    Skepchick Schedule for ChiFi

    Starting tomorrow, all of your favorite Skepchicks will be at the historic Palmer House in Chicago for ChiFi. We also have a ton of friends of Skepchick joining us for Skepchick-themed programming all weekend. Online registration is currently closed, but you can still buy tickets at the door. Here is our Skepchick programming schedule for this week. All panels will be in…

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  • Events

    Join Skepchick in Chicago next Week for Chi-Fi

    Next week Skepchick will be running a bunch of events during geek con Chi-Fi at the historic Palmer House in downtown Chicago. All of your favorite Skepchick, Mad Art Lab, Grounded Parents and Queereka writers will be there including Rebecca Watson, Amy Davis Roth, Ashley Hamer, Anne Sauer, Julia Burke, Emily Finke, Olivia James, Kavin Senapathy, Cassandra Phoenix, Nicole Gugliucci, Jamie…

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