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Economic Astronomy: Gender Gaps in Lifetime Earnings
Posted by Chad Orzel on August 10, 2011 There are two recent studies of gender disparities in science and technology (referred to by the faintly awful acronym “STEM”) getting a lot of play over the last few days. As is often the case with social-science results, the data they have aren’t quite the data you would really like to have, and I think…
The Problem With Innate Differences
Posted by Chad Orzel on October 24, 2010 In yesterday’s post about the experience of science, I mentioned that I had both a specific complaint about the article by Alexandra Jellicoe (which I explained in the post) and a general complaint about the class in which the article falls. I want to attempt to explain the latter problem, partly because I think it…
Good Advice Is Good Advice
Posted by Chad Orzel on September 2, 2010 Over at Inside Higher Ed, there’s a list of “survival tips” for women entering grad school in the sciences. It’s a pretty good and pretty typical list of advice– you can find more or less the same advice posted somewhere every fall. What’s striking about it, though, is that if you stripped all the specific…
