The Brogrammer Effect: Women Are a Small (and Shrinking) Share of Computer Workers
In 1990, more than 30 percent of computer workers were women. Now it's just 27 percent. More »
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Jordan Weissmann is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.
In 1990, more than 30 percent of computer workers were women. Now it's just 27 percent. More »
Fantasy revenue for companies like ESPN has more than tripled since 2004, turning make-believe sports into a very real billion-dollar business. More »
A study of Northwestern freshmen finds undergrads fare better when taught by non-tenture-track faculty. More »
A GOP plan would yank federal food help from some 6 million people. Meanwhile, 49 million Americans live in households that have trouble putting meals on the table. More »
Why pundits who see echoes of the housing bust in student loans have it wrong. More »
A new analysis shows that regions with a healthy middle class also have more upward mobility for the poor. More »
Nokia was a dumbphone company for a smartphone world More »
If anything, men have stopped taking on more responsibility at home in recent years. More »
When you account for buying power, $7.25 is better than it first looks by global standards. More »
The civil rights leader laid out his vision for fighting poverty in his final book. More »
Even if you find a job, it will likely pay far less than you're used to earning More »
Researchers already knew part of the fracking process was causing the ground shake. Now they think the sheer amount of drilling it's enabled might be causing quakes, too. More »
Borrowing has grown all across higher ed. But private colleges, and for-profits in particular, have played an outsized role. More »
The White House wants to tie federal aid to educational results and affordability. Too bad it doesn't stand a chance in Congress. More »
A new study finds that future entrepreneurs score high on measures of teenage delinquency. They're also disproportionately white, highly educated, and male. Here's why that might not be a coincidence. More »
There's still no medical definition, but psychologists try their best to separate dedicated employees from true addicts.
I spend a lot of time mulling over the problems that have been brought about by the rise of student debt -- the millions of financial lives shattered by needless defaults, the ruined credit scores stopping young people from buying homes. These are urgent issues. You know what I really couldn't care less about? Whether or not someone who spent $90,000 on an MBA gets to start a gluten-free cereal company -- which appears to be one of the chief concerns expressed… More »
And it's Washington's fault, too. More »
And why saving even a little bit of money on jailing criminals could go a long way. More »
"Abel, put that camera down. You're fired. Out." More »
