Courtesy of Jac:
I recently got an email informing me that the Bush Administration no longer wants keep track of how gendered employment is in the US. Here's the info:
A Proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to Discontinue Collection of Gender Data
"A December 22, 2004, Federal Register (Vol. 69, No. 245) notice by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Current Employment Statistics program (CES) proposes that the CES discontinue collecting and publishing data on female workers beginning with the release of the May 2005 data scheduled for publication in July 2005. (See announcement on BLS website.) Thus, BLS would no longer track the number of women workers in the United States in its monthly survey of 400,000 businesses."
I don't do statistical stuff. I have serious problems not only with collection and measurement, but how "realness" comes to only be numerically identifiable.
And yet this seems equivalent to bombing ancient Babylonian sites. How can we change the world if we don't even know it? It's the same feeling I have about Kinsey's work--I don't treat his findings as the gospel, but want it there to be challenged and problematized and engaged. We all need empirical research, even if half of what we do with it is explain how it produces and distorts particular ways of being in the world. What doesn't?
Here's how to challenge this proposal:
"The public has a 60-day 'comment period"' during which to submit reactions to BLS's proposed action (i.e., through Feb. 18). ASA encourages sociologist members to visit the BLS website, contact your congressperson (ask to be connected to your member of Congress by calling the Capitol switchboard at 1-800-839-5276), and politely [sic!] urging that these important data continue to be collected and distributed."
"Also consider sending your comments directly to BLS, at the following address:
Amy Hobby
BLS Clearance Officer
Division of Management Systems
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Room 2080
2 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20212
(tel: 202-691-7628)"
I recently got an email informing me that the Bush Administration no longer wants keep track of how gendered employment is in the US. Here's the info:
A Proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to Discontinue Collection of Gender Data
"A December 22, 2004, Federal Register (Vol. 69, No. 245) notice by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Current Employment Statistics program (CES) proposes that the CES discontinue collecting and publishing data on female workers beginning with the release of the May 2005 data scheduled for publication in July 2005. (See announcement on BLS website.) Thus, BLS would no longer track the number of women workers in the United States in its monthly survey of 400,000 businesses."
I don't do statistical stuff. I have serious problems not only with collection and measurement, but how "realness" comes to only be numerically identifiable.
And yet this seems equivalent to bombing ancient Babylonian sites. How can we change the world if we don't even know it? It's the same feeling I have about Kinsey's work--I don't treat his findings as the gospel, but want it there to be challenged and problematized and engaged. We all need empirical research, even if half of what we do with it is explain how it produces and distorts particular ways of being in the world. What doesn't?
Here's how to challenge this proposal:
"The public has a 60-day 'comment period"' during which to submit reactions to BLS's proposed action (i.e., through Feb. 18). ASA encourages sociologist members to visit the BLS website, contact your congressperson (ask to be connected to your member of Congress by calling the Capitol switchboard at 1-800-839-5276), and politely [sic!] urging that these important data continue to be collected and distributed."
"Also consider sending your comments directly to BLS, at the following address:
Amy Hobby
BLS Clearance Officer
Division of Management Systems
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Room 2080
2 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20212
(tel: 202-691-7628)"
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