Tag: Unfair

Going First Gives You an Unfair Advantage in Life

If there’s one thing that can change your life, it’s going freaking first. Who the heck wants to do that though? At work I used to weasel my way out of anything. “Any volunteers to stay back late and help clients?” I’d run for the elevator. One evening our bank...

This thing is still unfair.

Rosalind Franklin, a British chemist who was the real mystery solver behind the DNA helix but was interpreted as just a supportive researcher- that’s discrimination. The first American economist, Elinor Ostrom, received a Nobel prize for Economics after 62 male laureates but is she the only fe...