Re: ideas

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Here are three ideas for now; might need a little rephrasing. Let me know what you think.

Captive Audience [http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/girlgame.html]

Percent of gamers who are female: 52

Percentage of video game characters displayed on packages at the average game store who are female: 7.5

Percentage of these games in which a woman must be rescued at some point: 30

If You Can't Beat 'Em [http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Topics/WorkingWomen/], [http://www.worksite.actu.asn.au/showall.php3?page=article&artid=38&secid=3&workst_Session=aaf389d1c742ffc6145ae715b420f7ec]

First year in which women's pay equaled that of men for equal work: 1972

Number of female-owned businesses in the U.S. in 1972: 400,000

Cents that the average woman made per dollar earned by the average man in 2008 for equal work: 78

Number of female-owned businesses in 2008: 8,000,000

Self-Fulfilling Hypothesis [http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/553532/]

Percentage of adults who have difficulty associating science with women: 70

Percentage difference between perceptions of men and women on this point: 0

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.womensenews.org/

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.srgnet.com/us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/femmageekstakecharge-releasemarch-2008.pdf

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Good source for ideas:

http://harpers.org/index/subject/Women

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com> wrote:

____# of chicken casserole recipes in the 1978 edition of The Betty Crocker Cookbook

____ # of fast-food dinners sold each night, on average, in U.S.

0 # of fast-food dinners eaten by in ___ seasons

___ # of times June Cleaver met Ward at the door wearing an apron.

____ # of hours of sleep an average mother gets each night.

____# of hours married women report doing household tasks

____# of hours married men report doing household tasks, per week