Parity-the state or condition of being the same
in power, value, rank, equality.

	Playwrights for Parity Playwrights Julia Jordan and Sarah Schulman called a meeting at New Dramatists on September 2nd, 2008 to try to find ways to combat the shocking inequality in production opportunities for women playwrights versus their male counterparts in theater today. 150 women playwrights showed up to discuss the present season and ways to change the future. In the current New York season, there are ten plays by living American female playwrights being produced at these prominent NYC theaters, versus 40 by living American men: Roundabout, Lincoln Center, MTC, Public Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard, NYTW, Primary Stages, Soho Rep, Rattlestick, New Group and Atlantic Theatre. Following this meeting, other responses events have been called including the attached podcast.  Listen to the podcasts which interviewed 10 playwrights. http://www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod251.mp3 http://www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod252.mp3 Read more about the "Charging Bias by Theaters" meeting submitrted by Andrea Lepcio posted 25 October 2008
	This was posted by CNN yesterday. It's a picture of the scientists who are viewing the collider being turned on. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? How many women can you count? by Carole Losee 12 September 2008
	Math Gap Closing Between Girls, Boys Tuesday 29 July 2008 by: Amanda Cuda, The Connecticut Post ..."According to the study, published in the journal Science, male and female students in grades 2 through 11 perform roughly the same on standardized math tests. Researchers, led by psychologist Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, came to that conclusion after analyzing the scores of 7.2 million students in 10 states - including Connecticut - on standardized math tests administered between 2005 and 2007 as part of the No Child Left Behind initiative. They found that neither gender consistently performed better than the other at any grade level, from grade school to high school, or in any state. This contrasts with a 1990 study, also led by Hyde, that showed boys and girls did equally well on math tests in grade school, but that once high school rolled around, boys scored significantly higher than girls did on tests requiring complex problem solving. " Read more about the Math Gap Closing posted 1 August 2008