A subsequent review of the economic implications of the study concluded that “a series of six lessons in Alexander technique combined with an exercise prescription seems the most effective and cost effective option for the treatment of back pain in primary care.
via Alexander Technique – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sandra Hollinghurst et al.,Randomised controlled trial of Alexander technique lessons, exercise, and massage (ATEAM) for chronic and recurrent back pain: economic evaluation,British Medical Journal, 11 December 2008.
Aldous Huxley was a fan. May be worth checking out.
The channel we investigate in this paper is related to the fact that many laws that put constraints on women did so for married women, but not single women. This suggests that husband’s were benefitting from these constraints. It seems quite plausible that a husband prefers to keep his wife’s outside option low because this will give him a better bargaining position with his wife.4 This hypothesis is supported by some of the arguments made by the anti-suffrage movement. People were concerned about the threat to families if women gained the right to vote (e.g. Orestes Brown, a prominent protestant minister, argued in 1873 that the family would fall apart as soon as women were allowed to enter the public sphere). Why, then, would men ever agree to grant more rights to women?
The idea put forth in this paper is that there is a trade-off between what rights men want for their daughters relative to their wives. We interpret rights broadly here and model it as a bargaining parameter in marriage. That is, women without rights have no bargaining power relative to their husband, while full rights will be captured through equal bargaining power. Men ideally want their wives to have no rights, while they do want full rights for their daughters. We assume that rights are extended by law and thus will affect all women (i.e. daughters and wives) equally. If daughters have no rights, then their future husbands will treat them poorly, which fathers of daughters would like to avoid. In addition, a wife’s education matters for producing high-quality children. A husband prefers his children to find high-quality mates, and therefore stands to gain from increasing the power of his children’s mothers-in-law. If men can vote on the extent of women’s rights, they will vote to give them rights just enough to equalize the marginal loss from rights to their wive with the marginal benefit from rights to other men’s wives (daughters and mothers-in-law of own children etc.). We argue that this trade-off changes over time, because of an increasing importance of human capital. More specifically, as returns to human capital increase, the efficiency loss from under-investment in human capital increases. Eventually, men will benefit from voting for full rights for all women.
From http:economics.uwo.ca/newsletter/misc/2007/tertilt_dec7.pdf
Interesting article. Seems obvious after reading it.
“Men are less suited than women to the knowledge economy, which rewards supposedly female traits such as sensitivity, intuition, and a willingness to collaborate,” reports Peter Coy in Business Week. “Men have tended to do better in the hierarchies, following orders and relying on positional power.”
via Women will lead Generation Y – what will men do? | Modite.
I’m not sure I’m ready to embrace the conclusion of this article — that marriage is the solution for making men grow up in a world of gender equality.
Psychology is such a broad and interesting subject. I wonder how it will integrate with science and technology in the future. Will American society become increasingly individualistic with a fear of domineering social constructs, or will it extend its recent progress in civil liberties to develop a supportive environment for complex and unique personalities and individuals?
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“Research has shown that fantasy can be rewarding under conditions of physical deprivation. . . . Empirical studies conducted by Silverman, Lachmann, and Milich (1982) showed that the message “MOMMY AND I ARE ONE” presented subliminally (on the tachistoscope) ameliorated symptoms in schizophrenic patients in some groups of non-psychotic individuals.
-From “Fear of Intimacy” by Firestone and Catlett
