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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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
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.
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.
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.
Support the Mautner Project for Lesbians With Cancer! "The Mautner Project improves the health of lesbians, bisexual, and transgender women who partner with women, and their families, through advocacy, education, research, and direct service. [The Mautner Project envisions] a healthcare system that is guided by social justice and responsive to the needs of all people."
November 29, 2006
Perfusing the Magnet
Category: Ask a Science Blogger
Don actually kept a flood-the-magnet scoreboard up in the magnet room
Posted by Zuska at 3:17 PM • 11 Comments •
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....
Posted by Zuska at 2:16 PM • 1 Comments •
November 21, 2006
Rebutting Rachel
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
perhaps she has not yet had a lot of experience with complicated graphics.
Posted by Zuska at 2:11 PM • 5 Comments •
Toadygawa Translated
Category: Why There Are No Women in Science
It is too, too good to pass up
Posted by Zuska at 1:56 PM • 2 Comments •
What's Wrong With This Statement?
Category: Moron Management
People ought to know their place and keep to it.
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 1 Comments •
November 20, 2006
Methods of Prohibition
Category: Sex Offenders
you wouldn't expect that dogturd of a man to be sexually abusing her
Posted by Zuska at 4:18 PM • 2 Comments •
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...)
Posted by Zuska at 2:05 PM • 8 Comments •
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...
Posted by Zuska at 9:39 AM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Zuska at 9:30 AM • 5 Comments •
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