Title: the collective she
Product review: The book lived up to the hype, more or less. Some arguments seems to follow the "common sense" logic and I was expecting more statistics and theory. This may be what other people dislike, but I was expecting to see that the arguments were based in sound economic theory for someone who did not study economics aside from the mandatory microeconomics and macroeconomics courses in college.Also, I found it interesting and somewhat distracting that in some cases the authors used "she" in the collective form and in other places they used "he." The chapter about the teachers refers to the "questionable" teachers as "she" - why is that? Did they assume more women are teachers? And in at least one case while describing a more "positive" situation, they used the collective "he." I have not read many books that blatantly changed from the collective he to the collective she based on argument as quickly as this one. I'm not sure what to make of that.All in all, though, an interesting read.
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