Why There Are No Women in Science
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What’s So Great About Your STEMmy Lifestyle Anyway? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!
Posted by Zuska on June 29, 2010 Why should any woman get any degree in a STEM discipline? Especially if she has to wade through tons of bullshit courses to get there, and part of the learning, it appears, has to do with learning how to be someone you aren’t? Some other gender, some other race – or some other social class?…
The Differential Impacts of Sexist Gender Role Expectations
Posted by Zuska on June 28, 2010 Every once in awhile I do manage to get out to a social sort of event. Recently I was at one such thing. And overhead the following: Female, mid-40s: When I was in high school, I wanted to be a veterinarian. And I had great SAT scores, high 1400′s [out of a then total 1600].…
Things Are Getting Better All The Time…
Posted by Zuska on June 27, 2010 Female Science Professor has posted a checklist – “Kind of like Sexism Bingo, but in list form.” – and asked for additions. I was going to offer a few additions, but I thought “all that crap happened a thousand years ago, when I was an undergrad/grad student. I’ll just read this list of new stuff…
Work-Life Balance 3: Less Navel-Gazing, More Scholarly And Institutional Structure Analysis!
Posted by Zuska on June 23, 2010 First post in this series can be found here. Second post in this series can be found here. In my second post in this series, I gave the men a cookie, and commenter rpf accused me of…gasp!…being too nice! I believe this is the first time this has ever happened.
Work-Life Balance 2: On Stepping Up To The Plate
Posted by Zuska on June 18, 2010 First post in this series can be found here. The third and final post in this series can be found here. ScientistMother really wants DrugMonkey to step up to the plate already. She says that DM laid out his own responsibility to deal, on-blog, with work-life balance issues and to share the details of how…
Work-Life Balance 1: Women, The Media Totally Support You!
Posted by Zuska on June 17, 2010 Work-life balance: people have been talking about it. Wait, that’s not right. Women have been talking about it. And have been talked at about it, by some people. Doc Free-Ride has a good round-up of a most recent skirmish of opinions on the topic in the sciencey blogosphere. If you have not been following this,…
Wah Wah, Where Is The Stuff For White Men?
Posted by Zuska on May 4, 2010 A recent conversation with a friend reminded me of yet another of the “death by a thousand paper cuts**” craptastic things I used to hate dealing with in my days in the scientific workforce. You know what I’m talking about. Could be a retreat, a workshop, a seminar, a meeting, a program, maybe even just…
Conversations With Female Science Administrator
Posted by Zuska on November 10, 2009 I have an acquaintance who works in what some of you professorial types jokingly refer to as the dark side – administration. Ha ha ha. Yeah, I was an administrator in academia myself, you know, and let me tell you, you should be grateful to your administrators, if only for the fact that if they…
What’s With The Makeovers?
Posted by Zuska on August 4, 2009 You are a male physics professor, and you want to improve science education. What could possibly be a better idea than to team up with a bunch of professional cheerleaders and make a video of them shouting out science tidbits while they shake their pompoms? Science cheerleaders! I know, right? You wish you’d thought of…
New Book on African American Women in Science
Posted by Zuska on July 15, 2009 Via the WEPAN listserv, I just learned about a new book about African American women in science: Temple University is proud to announce the publication of Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls and Science Education by Sandra L. Hanson. In her book, Hanson uses Department of Education data as well as a recent survey…