Are we women sabotaging our own earning power, thus inadvertently fueling the depressing statistics of our wage gap with men?

FORBES: Are Women Actually the Cause (and Solution) to the Wage Gap?

The month's statistics showed a slight letup in prices of residential electric power, which slowed to 0.6% from April's increase of 1.2%.

FORBES: Worst Of Both Worlds

The National Bureau of Statistics said urban investment in fixed assets such as roads, power plants and apartment buildings rose by 26.5% in January and February from a year earlier, beating market forecasts for a 21.5% increase.

FORBES: China's Export Powerhouse Looking Winded

Evidence from the American Bureau of Labour Statistics support the conservative argument that they have used their power to extract a wage premium: public-sector workers earn, on average, a third more than their private-sector counterparts.

ECONOMIST: Public-sector workers

Learning about the distribution of earthquakes may not prevent the Big One, but for war and terrorism, power-law statistics may teach governments something about how to defeat the enemy, and make war less deadly.

ECONOMIST: Modelling conflict