Quick Hits 24 March 2008

Shanti is setting a good example for her younger sisters when it comes to money. Who says us girls aren't confident with our money?

Minimum wage is dead tough to live on. Shocker.

Ms. Micah has a three-part series on how to hide money from an abusive partner. (Parts one, two, and three).

This interesting little video accompanying a recent NYT article on the recent popularity of plastic surgery and dermatology as medical specialties has some interesting observations about women in medicine. Like this, from med student Meena Singh: "People [in dermatology] won't feel like you're a burden for being pregnant or having kids during the residency, which happens in other fields and is very unfortunate. Because clearly, our male counterparts can have as many kids as they want." Of course, they're men, so... you know. It's different. [eyeroll]

Race and socioeconomic status correlate to a woman's likelihood of developing postpartum depression. This article doesn't break down the stats for race, but 40% of new Iowa mothers with a household income of $20,000 or less had "clinically significant postpartum depression," compared with only 13% of new mothers with household incomes of $80,000 or above.

In the wake of this wacky Spitzer business, Alternet has a really interesting interview with Sienna Baskin, an attorney with the Sex Workers Project in New York City. A large portion of it focuses on economic aspects of sex work.