Three Links About Gender

Here’s a mini link round-up concerning gender-related stories:

Via the new Digg + wiki site Thoof (how’s that pronounced? ‘thuf?’), I discovered the blog (and associated site) Expecting Executive. The company provides services for the pregnant businesswoman. That’s a clever and growing niche. There’s an idiosyncrasy in their blog URL–it’s http://blogspot.expectingexecutive.com/. You might need to look twice at that URL to spot the weirdness.
A bunch of illuminating statistics about about sundry cultural and educational divides between boys and girls. The numbers on suicide and correctional facilities are particularly surprising.
The Musuo people live in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, close to the border with Tibet. They are a matrilineal society, and have a highly unusual tradition of marriage. Here, also, are some beautiful photos on Flickr.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 4:34 am and is filed under Link Round-Up. Tag Testing Project: gender, musuo, statistics, thoof, walking marriage. Photo by . You can skip to the end and leave a response, or trackback from your own site. If you don't see your comment within a day or so, drop me an email. Sometimes my comment spam filter gets overly zealous.

Chris Says:
June 30th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
That is a weird url. So the owners of the expecingexecutive domain created a subdomain that’s the same as one that expecingexecutive is also a subdomain of. (Did that make any sense?) Interestingly though, if you interchange the subdomain/domain, you get the same content.

darrenbarefoot.com