Sophia,

here they would be called "Not for Credit for Degree" or NCFD

le nubian-- Thank you! That is perfect!

My uni is always stressing password security, including never giving out your password to anyone, ever. They did a direct mail campaign to our homes, there are posters, etc. I assumed most business also wanted people to keep their passwords secure. Asking for a Facebook password seems weird in that context.

‘The Richer Sex’: How Women Became the New Breadwinners

While marrying up used to be the thought the best means of social advancement for women, we now know that if there’s one silver bullet for gender inequality, it’s education. We’re only just beginning to see what higher college-graduation rates for women may mean. And it’s not just that more women are graduating, but that in the United States—and more surprisingly in countries like Saudi Arabia and Mongolia—female university students now outnumber male students. Part of the reason women have overtaken men, Mundy writes, is because boys and their families are still working on the outdated principle that a young man can enter the trades and make a decent, reliable income. But that’s often not the case anymore.

Also, men are weird.

One of the most fascinating phenomena driving gender changes in the workforce, Munday says, is that of male flight, the tendency that men have to lose interest in or abandon a profession as more women enter it. Researchers have said that men show an aversion to what’s been termed gender “pollution.” As women begin entering a field, the most cited example being veterinary medicine, younger men begin to show less interest in that area of expertise. Older, established male veterinarians don’t leave the field, it’s just that the rising classes of veterinarians turn overwhelmingly female. Some researchers have predicted that this example can be used to predict what we’ll see even in traditionally male professions like law. “The women pour in,” Mundy observes, “and the men drain out.”

someone on the Atlantic thread regarding employers requesting FB passwords have this to say:

If one can be intimidated to give their Facebook password, how easy would it be to shake them down for passwords they might use for confidential systems at work?

I think this is an interesting point.

Couple this with the article (was it posted here last month) where teenagers and college students are showing faith in the relationship by exchanging email and FB passwords.

And you're giving the password to a potential employer, not to anyone you've signed agreements with, any sort of NDA or anything. They're nothing to you, and you have no assurance of what they'll do with the password.

I know that when I type a password in on my work network, technically I've given it to them. I've signed the documentation saying that anything I do on their hardware or their network is all theirs.

Wow, this teamaker is...damn. I can really taste the tea. It's so different. Also, 175 is much closer to a temperature I can drink than 212, unsurprisingly. But I can pour a cup and drink with just blowing on it, rather than needing to put in an ice cube when I eyeball it before or after the boil. I had no idea I was so off the mark.

Fucking tasty shit, though.

“The women pour in,” Mundy observes, “and the men drain out.”

Well, fuck them, then.

“The women pour in,” Mundy observes, “and the men drain out.”

Well, fuck them, then.

I have heard it said that this is why pediatricians and primary care doctors are considered "low-paying" specialties.

“The women pour in,” Mundy observes, “and the men drain out.”

Who knew that fear of cooties lasts well into adulthood?

Is primary care predominantly female?

And I sure did wish that men draining out didn't mean anything other than the assholes leave. Because the entire workforce is better off not having to work with the kind of people that would leave because of an evening out of the genders.

I don't get men.