It's Just No Use, Girls: A Profound Analysis of Gender and Engineering
Category: Gendering Technology
There is Boy Stuff, and there is Girl Stuff. Engineering is Boy Stuff.
Posted by Zuska at 6:56 PM • 63 Comments •
A Blog For All and No One
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.
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.

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April 30, 2008
Category: Gendering Technology
There is Boy Stuff, and there is Girl Stuff. Engineering is Boy Stuff.
Posted by Zuska at 6:56 PM • 63 Comments •
Category: Naming Experience
"But we can't have the NAS lowering its standards just to admit women/minorities!"
Posted by Zuska at 1:16 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
Being a woman is no guarantee that you will respect other women and/or realize that feminism has some valid points to make.
Posted by Zuska at 12:34 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Outrage of the Week
For a long time now, I have not been what you would call a believer in progress. That is, I do not think things are bound to improve in the gender equity arena. I think we are in the middle...
Posted by Zuska at 11:22 AM • 10 Comments •
April 25, 2008
Category: Announcements
Greetings, Gentle Readers. I just rescued a number of comments from hang-up in moderation. No idea why most of them got moderated - they didn't even have links in them. Some of them were made many days ago. I want...
Posted by Zuska at 8:05 PM • 4 Comments •
April 17, 2008
Category: Burns My Shorts
UPDATE: After posting this entry, I found out that the paper I discussed here is not actually slated at this time to be published in a peer-reviewed journal; it is merely available as a preprint. Nevertheless, I hear that the...
Posted by Zuska at 7:23 PM • 40 Comments •
April 8, 2008
Category: Moron Management
I just had to share this very recent comment with you all: I would actually very much like to avoid this blog (and a few others), but the ScienceBlogs channels - which I prefer to having to subscribe to each...
Posted by Zuska at 4:41 PM • 68 Comments •
Category: Gendering Technology
The article on Mayer follows this pattern, simultaneously overexposing and erasing her.
Posted by Zuska at 4:26 PM • 106 Comments •
Category: Announcements
From my email inbox: information about AWIS coaching seminars. Two dates, four times, 45 minutes in length, details after the jump....
Posted by Zuska at 3:12 PM • 1 Comments •
April 7, 2008
Category: Scientiae Carnival
That's some writing after Zuska's own heart!
Posted by Zuska at 6:08 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Announcements
...talking about gender and science is also not up for negotiation.
Posted by Zuska at 5:44 PM • 21 Comments •
April 5, 2008
Category: Naming Experience
Should be required viewing in all our schools.
Posted by Zuska at 10:05 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Gendering Technology
What is it that the world really needs? What should we be devoting our time, energy, and talent to, in order to make this a better world? Climate research? No. Renewable energy? No. Sustainable living? No. Gardening with native plants?...
Posted by Zuska at 9:29 PM • 19 Comments •
April 3, 2008
Category: Announcements
I've mentioned Kay Weber and her lawsuit against Fermilab on this blog before. Sherry Towers forwarded an email to me that gives an update on Kay's situation:...
Posted by Zuska at 6:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Linkfest
Physioprof weighs in on the issue of pseudonymous blogging and "blogging while female" phenomenon. It's a good read. Peter Sagal, who hosts NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" has a piece on gender inequity in Whoville. It's awesome. An excerpt:...
Posted by Zuska at 5:42 PM • 4 Comments •
