Links, links, links!
Not enough to be worth categorizing this time, so have at ‘em:
* [Stubborn pay gap for women persists worldwide](http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/gender-equality-workplace-1.3326221) -- It's closing, but still very slowly.
* [Why Marissa Mayer is too hot to be Yahoo!'s CEO: The case against hiring women](https://medium.com/absurdist/why-marissa-mayer-is-too-hot-be-yahoo-s-ceo-the-case-against-hiring-women-6202dfed82d0#.9czmzdjd7) -- Related to the above; otherwise well-meaning people still have deeply sexist ideas about women in the workplace, including the pervasive idea that women who are "too hot" are distracting to their male coworkers--and it's the men whose needs should be considered first, apparently.
* [How the explosion in prescription painkillers has created more heroin users](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/how-the-explosion-in-prescription-painkillers-has-created-more-heroin-users/) -- An interesting piece drawing a line between increased prescribing of powerful pain medications and, as dependence on those medications grows (and access to them diminishes), people in pain (and now addicted to painkillers) turn to heroin.
* [Emotional labor](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0UUYL6kaNeBTDBRbkJkeUtabEk/view) -- A very length document compiled from a thread on Metafilter; it discusses at considerable length the concept of "emotional labor," which are tasks usually performed or expected to be performed by women, and which almost always go uncompensated because they aren't seen as having real value, even though they represent necessary and important work.
* [Head-to-head: Turkish F-16C vs. Russian Su-24M](http://fightersweep.com/3388/3388/) -- Describes the characteristics and capabilities of the planes involved in the Turkish downing of a Russian bomber jet. Spoiler: Su-24s have no chance against an F-16.
