On air: Do women need to better promote themselves in the workplace?

CLAY SHIRKY IS OUR GUEST TODAY AND HE’S WRITTEN THIS POST FOR YOU TO RESPOND TO…

I wrote “A Rant About Women” for several reasons, but mostly because I see my great female students go out into the world and under-promote themselves. For me, the key idea in that essay is that women should get better at “behaving like arrogant, self-aggrandizing jerks”, as I put it then.

Clay Shirky’s ‘Rant About Women’

I saw a blogger responding to a Clay Shirky post the other day. Nothing unusual in that, but the more I looked, the most the particular issue he’d raised had struck a nerve. I’ve been burned so many times paraphrasing people that I’ll not even try this time, but he addresses the reasons why women don’t make the same progress as men in the work place. He’ll be on Tuesday’s show – and you can read his post in full here.

On air: Should the Pope resign?

It’s a question that doesn’t get asked in the Catholic Church (and it’s been a very long time since it last happened) – after all, Catholics believe the office is infallible.

But it’s now being contemplated because of growing outrage over various sex abuse scandals covered up by the church.

An end to racial profiling?

If you thought you knew what a alleged terrorist looks like, this photo may have changed your mind … 

Jorge talks about depression

On air: Is Happiness a natural state ?

….and therefore if you aren’t happy, then you’re ill ?

Here’s an article that has got a lot of people talking from the New Yorker.

Louis Menand reviews a couple of new books which deal with the subject of  depression and writes :

“what has changed is not the number of people who are clinically depressed but the definition of depression, which has been defined in a way that includes normal sadness.”

Ros Gives a Tour of the Set

We’re at the University Center at the University of Miami. It’s Spring Break but we’ve managed to round up students and professors to talk about happiness. Here’s a look at the set up.

Jody’s Impressions of WHYS

Today’s guest Jody has been around the crew this week in Miami. She even gave us a lift when we needed a ride. Today she joins us on the show to talk about happiness and how she’s been affected by the sour economy.

Fighting for Afghanistan

Here’s a sneak preview of tomorrow’s Newshour,

Diary of Your Week: Difficult thoughts

Hi it’s Paul here, in the time I’ve been working here I established pretty early on that WHYS is privileged to have fantastic contributors and callers .