Trending today: a massive national study finds that even now, school principals default to mothers over fathers when choosing which parents to contact about their kids. (This is even the case when the parents explicitly say ‘call Dad first.’) It’s a fascinating study about persistent and pervasive gender norms – but Aaron’s more interested in the logistics of the research, which involved sending 80,000 fictitious emails to principals nationwide.
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