I’m not much of an expert in feminist economics—I count on my fingers—but I can appreciate a visually interesting, sufficiently dumbed-down lady-graph when it comes my way. This week, my foray into quantitative analysis of feminist issues left me kinda down. Behold, graphical representations of Bad News in abortion and stripping:

Depressing Feminist Graph #1:

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Yesterday, the New York Times‘ Cahterine Rampell detailed how the current recession has nearly achieved a “bittersweet” parity between the genders in the workforce—because men are more likely to lose their jobs than women in hard times. Rampell accompanies her analysis with this graph:

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Today, Bloomberg’s William Pesek applauds Malaysia for finally making international headlines based on its economic strength—and not on its gay sex scandals.

“Malaysia is in the global financial pages, and for a change it has little to do with sodomy,” Pesek reports.

Pesek, unfortunately, leads his own examination of Malaysian economics with a recap of the nation’s most infamous gay sex scandal—former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s alleged (and illegal) tryst with a man.

So, thanks to Pesek, even when Malaysia is making financial news unrelated to gay sex, “Gay Sex” still make up the first two words in the story’s headline. Congratulations to Malaysia, and to William “Gay Sex” Pesek for really working the search engines on this one!