out-selling

friday and yesterday i put in a few hours' worth of work and made 100 smackaroos (if i understand the rate correctly).  pound out a python script, tweak it for a while, then plug the output into r, export a couple plots, and that's it.   get a few pats on the head for being half-competent at something that web folks don't really do.

and thusly beckons the hand of satan (i.e. the private sector).  could i leave academia?  leave the comforting research lab and the low expectations and de-emphasis on deliverables?  given the state of funding, the swollen market of biological phds, and the unlikelihood of positions in geographically favorable locations, one can't be too sanguine about science.

unremunerated

Discrimination denies small-scale female farmers the same access men have to fertilizer, seeds, credit, membership in cooperatives and unions, and technical assistance. That deters potential productivity gains. But the biggest barriers don’t even have to do with farming — and yet they have a huge impact on food security.

As sole or principal caregivers, women and girls often face a heavy burden of unremunerated household chores like cooking, cleaning, fetching water, collecting firewood and caring for the very young and the elderly. These uncompensated activities are equivalent to as much as 63 percent of gross domestic product in India and Tanzania. But they result in lost opportunities for women, who don’t have the time to attend classes, travel to markets to sell produce or do other activities to improve their economic prospects.