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Stephen Downes

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Marcie Bianco makes the point proposed in the headline fairly convincingly by offering a series of ways in which it is true, listing everything from the larger students loans they must take out to the higher proportion of women in low-paying adjunct positions to the observation that as women join a field, average pay in the field drops. But there's more, an undercurrent and an observation, which is encapsulated in the discussion of the relation between the attack on the humanities, the increasing number of women in the humanities, and the accusation that there is a predominance of 'liberal values' in such fields. 

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