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attackeng.jpg Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.

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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains

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You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.

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If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.

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You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.

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November 29, 2006

The Madame Curie of Machine Tools

Category: Role Models

Women like Kate Gleason can remind you that women have always loved technology

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Perfusing the Magnet

Category: Ask a Science Blogger

Don actually kept a flood-the-magnet scoreboard up in the magnet room

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Training Your Department Chairs

Category: Positive Actions

From the WEPAN listserv: The University of Washington has received a grant from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program (grant SBE-0619159) to offer a series of national leadership workshops for science, engineering, and mathematics department chairs and emerging faculty leaders....

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November 21, 2006

Rebutting Rachel

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

perhaps she has not yet had a lot of experience with complicated graphics.

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Toadygawa Translated

Category: Why There Are No Women in Science

It is too, too good to pass up

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What's Wrong With This Statement?

Category: Moron Management

People ought to know their place and keep to it.

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November 20, 2006

Methods of Prohibition

Category: Sex Offenders

you wouldn't expect that dogturd of a man to be sexually abusing her

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How To Suppress Women's Science and Engineering

Category: Why There Are No Women in Science

She didn't do science. (But if it's clear she did the deed...)

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Tonegawa Steps Down!

Category: Sex Discrimination

Toadygawa is history! At least at Picower. The Chronicle's news blog reports that Susumu Tonegawa is stepping down as head of Picower after an university investigation found he "behaved inappropriately when he tried to discourage a young female scholar from...

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The Montreal Massacre and Gendercide In Iraq

Category: Manifestoes

This post grew out of an exchange with Benjamin Franz on my post This Is The Patriarchy: When Talking To The Master, Speak In A Civil Tone. I felt the exchange itself was worth promoting to a post, with some...

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November 17, 2006

Let Her Eat The Oppressor's Cake

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

Normally I think one should be a bit gentle with the young un's, as they are still not fully formed and their thinking has not developed much complexity. They haven't had a lot of experience; you have to give them...

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The Play's The Thing

Category: Conference Report

Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King

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Using Their Powers For Your Good

Category: Moron Management

..most clever examples of moron management I have ever heard of.

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New Science Think Tank

Category: Ministry of Science and Culture

Yay! Finally! The good guys - that's us - are finally getting their/our own Discovery Institute! Only ours will actually promote real science and science policy as opposed to God-told-me-so science and science policy. Ed Brayton over at Dispatches From...

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Professor of the Year Donna C. Boyd

Category: Role Models

"The dead are speaking to us."

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November 15, 2006

Shake Off The Dust...

Category: Moron Management

Go not into the way of the misogynists, and into any city of the Resistants enter ye not.

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November 12, 2006

The Tender Sensibilities of Men

Category: Moron Management

The mere thought of all those panel members up there, sans penis, is enough to make any man quake in his shoes.

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November 10, 2006

Dr. Sexy Tells All

Category: Ask a Science Blogger

Geek boys also understood that they could use homework to hit on geek girls. I didn't recognize this form of courtship at first.

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November 8, 2006

Because We Don't Have To

Category: Conference Report

It doesn't matter how nicely we speak, how nuanced our arguments and discussions, how sweetly we invite.

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Central Florida's Mujeres Universitarias Asociadas

Category: Positive Actions

Belonging to a group like MUA just might reduce your daily need to puke on somebody's shoes.

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The Life of a Postdoc

Category: Daily Struggles

I remember my postdoc years as a particularly exhilirating, wonderfully terrible form of hell wherein I worked like a dog for love of discovery and less pay than a coal miner.

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November 7, 2006

She's Such a Geek Blog

Category: The Real Geek Goddesses

You have not lived until you've seen a bra with a voltmeter-ammeter panel.

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You Need to Know the X-Gals

Category: Positive Actions

Every woman in science or engineering should have some sort of support network of fabulous interesting women.

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Your Brain on God

Category: Science Follies

File this under: I have an imaging tool and I need something to do with it that will garner grant support. Hey, let's study people speaking in tongues! Because we will learn....something! That will be of use for....whatever!...

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November 3, 2006

Defeat Rick Santorum!

Category: Ask a Science Blogger

I want a representative, responsive, and responsible government. Rick Santorum can only prevent our government from operating in that manner.

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It's Time to Plant Bulbs and Deal With Deer!

Category: Friday Fare

...the deer, ashamed of the havoc and destruction their increasing numbers have wreaked upon the globe...

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November 2, 2006

Michael Issues a Gender Equity Challenge!

Category: Sex Discrimination

Regular reader and blogger Michael Anes wrote to tell me: I haven't heard any Scienceblogging on the gender equity report issued this morning and profiled on the Chronicle? Did you check it out?...My post and challenge is here -- I'd...

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Not Even On the Radar Screen

Category: Manly Men

To ask real, serious, difficult questions about male reproductive health requires challenging ingrained assumptions about what it means to be a man.

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