Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden likened the current Ebola outbreak to the AIDS epidemic during a conference yesterday. Also, what does Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's flub about women seeking raises in the workplace say about attitudes toward women in the workplace? Then, it's TGI-Filmweek!
CDC director invokes AIDS comparison to rally Ebola response
Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, commenting on the Ebola outbreak yesterday said, "[I]n the thirty years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS.
And we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS." Today, the U.N. special envoy on Ebola said the number of cases is probably doubling every three-to-four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October to control the rapid advance of the deadly virus. Public health expert Philip Alcabes told AirTalk, "In my view, from an epidemiological standpoint, Ebola looks nothing like AIDS." In Alcabes' analysis, Dr. Frieden's comments were intended to get Americans to pay attention to Africa, in the same way AIDS became a rallying cry in the 1980s.
What's your view of Dr. Frieden's comments? What can we learn from early failures in the response to HIV/AIDS when that disease first emerged?
Guest:
Philip Alcabes, Ph.D, professor of public health at Adelphi University; author of "Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu"
Microsoft CEO’s flub and what it says about our attitude toward women in the workplace
At a conference on women in computing in Phoenix Thursday, new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked what he would say to women who are uncomfortable asking for a raise. His answer burned up the internet.
“It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along,” he said, adding that women who do so would acquire “good karma” and be eventually rewarded for their patience and hard work. Nadella has since tried to walk back those comments, tweeting after the conference that he was sorry for the “inarticulate” remarks.
What should women do and prepare for before they ask for a raise? Does Nadella's remarks accurately reflect our societal attitude toward women in the workplace? Does gender disparity in the tech sector play a role in this particular case?
Guests:
Daisy Swan, a career coach based in Los Angeles
Rebecca Kieler, career management consultant based in the Bay Area with 20-plus years of experience in the field. She’s worked with companies such as Sun Micro Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and Yahoo
Filmweek: St. Vincent, The Judge, Kill the Messenger and more
Larry and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig and Tim Cogshell review this week’s releases including St. Vincent, The Judge, Kill the Messenger and more. TGI-Filmweek!
St. Vincent:
The Judge:
Kill The Messenger:
Guests:
Claudia Puig, film critic for KPCC and USA today
Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC and Alt Film Guide