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ScienceWoman is a first-year assistant professor in -ology. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
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Finally, a thoughtful article about women and work in the NYT. This quote I found particularly important:"When we saw women starting to drop out in the early part of this decade, we thought it was the motherhood movement, women staying...
Posted on July 22, 2008 1:50 PM • 0 Comments •
In a week when others in the blogosphere are discussing TIME magazine's coverage of a pregnancy boom in Gloucester, Massachusetts, there was something else that caught my eye (and my ire). I've sent the following letter to the editors at...
Posted on June 22, 2008 5:13 PM • 12 Comments •
Picking up where we left off a week ago...Caplan outlines 11 myths about women that she argues are pertinent to the case of women in academia. I'm going to skip over the first batch of myths, and focus on the...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 2:51 PM • 6 Comments •
I'll pick up on a comment thread from the last post, in which I argued that whether women with high earning jobs and high earning partners were "opting out" or being forced out missed the fact that many women with...
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Posted on March 5, 2008 7:43 AM • 11 Comments •
In the 15 February Science Magazine, Phyllis Moen reviews the book "Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home" by Pamela Stone. Stone examines the phenomenon of women leaving successful to stay home by actually interviewing the women...
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Posted on March 4, 2008 8:23 AM • 35 Comments •
I should say up front that I work in a fairly family-friendly department. They were fantastic when I interviewed (Minnow was just 1 month old) and my colleagues have occasionally asked after her development. I brought her to class once...
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Posted on February 7, 2008 10:37 PM • 48 Comments •
Bitch PhD pretty well sums up how I feel about today's primary choices. To those of you who live in states that have primaries or caucuses today, please go out and make your voice heard. Even if you're not quite...
Posted on February 5, 2008 9:12 AM • 4 Comments •
Via BitchPh.D. comes this story of a 7 year old who jumped in front of her mother's murderous ex-boyfriend to save her mother's life. The little girl was shot six times (and her mother twice) before the police finally showed...
Posted on December 14, 2007 10:01 AM • 3 Comments •
Kate, our lovely host for the December edition of Scientiae has decreed that the theme is "transcending the debate." Here's my (late) entry. Look for the carnival up around the 3rd. Much of what I've been blogging about lately has...
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Posted on December 1, 2007 8:54 AM • 9 Comments •
This morning as I reached into my closet, I suddenly realized that the shirt I'd been planning on wearing would clash with the background on my power point slides for this morning's lecture. Having made that discovery, I couldn't subject...
Posted on November 13, 2007 9:54 AM • 34 Comments •
