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• Behind the Exodus of Executive Women: Boredom  [link to nytimes article] 

  By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH,  May 1, 2005

  Women now outnumber men in managerial and professional positions, and most companies have installed policies that aim to help their leaders balance the demands of job and family. Yet three decades after a woman first became chief executive of a Fortune 500 company, fewer than 2 percent of the biggest corporations are run by women. Executive recruiters and corporate boards could be forgiven for asking themselves why.

• Bad attitudes
  
  Mar 10th 2005 From The Economist print edition
  A misguided debate over black underachievement at school 
  WHY do black children [in Britain/United Kingdom] do so badly at school? Not because their plight has been overlooked. For the past 25 years, official inquiries have turned up evidence of underachievement among Afro-Caribbeans, especially boys. Explanations have been suggested and possible solutions touted. Some unusually controversial ones were put forward this week by Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality. Sadly, such discussions have been more energetic than useful.

   

• Women and work
  
  Jun 2nd 2005 From The Economist print edition
  Women are gaining equality in professions that used to be male preserves, but not complete equality
  “GLASS CEILINGS” supposedly prevented women from flourishing in professional careers. But take three walks of life which used to be overwhelmingly male: medicine, the church and the law. All are going female. In doctoring, female medical students have outnumbered male ones since the early 1990s. In law, there are now slightly more women than men “called to the bar” (admitted to practise as trial lawyers). In the Church of England, where women have been eligible for ordination only since 1992, their numbers have been shooting up. By the last count, two years ago, they had nearly overhauled men; soon, if not already, there will be more women being ordained than men.