Archive for Elizabeth Larson
The Economic Costs of Sexual Harassment
Ms. Larson has written on women’s business issues for Investor’s Business Daily, American Enterprise magazine, and the Knight-Ridder Financial News Service. An earlier version of this article appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of The Women’s Quarterly. Sexual harassment is “subtle rape,” or so says psychologist John Gottman. Judging from the millions of dollars U.S. [...]
1Aug1996 | Elizabeth Larson | 0 comments | ContinuedNo Thanks, Uncle Sam
Miss Larson, a writer in Los Angeles, has written about women in the workplace for Investor’s Business Daily, Reason, Insight, and other publications. A shorter version of this article was presented at a teach-in on affirmative action at the University of California-Los Angeles on May 4, 1995. Today’s businesswoman needs affirmative action like a fish [...]
1Dec1995 | Elizabeth Larson | 2 comments | ContinuedZoo, Inc.
David Haarmeyer is a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation. Elizabeth Larson writes for Reason magazine. What do you do with a homeless peacock? Zookeepers had to deal with such problems when the Petting Zoo at Manhattan’s Central Park closed in 1991 because of New York City’s budget troubles. Most of the petting zoo’s inhabitants [...]
1Jan1993 | and David Haarmeyer | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique Of Individualism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
University of North Carolina Press, P.O. Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288 • 1991 • 347 pages • $24.95 cloth By claiming that individualism is a documented failure and that modern feminism betrays itself by not acknowledging its dependence on that defunct philosophy, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s latest contribution to women’s studies has raised eyebrows and tempers [...]
1Apr1992 | Elizabeth Larson | 0 comments | ContinuedElephants and Ivory
Elizabeth Larson, a staff writer at the Cato Institute, researched African elephants while studying at the National Journalism Center in the summer of 1990. She holds a-degree in English literature from Vassar College. When government officials arrived in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the biannual meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in October [...]
1Jul1991 | Elizabeth Larson | 2 comments | Continued-
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