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Daily Struggles:
Guide to Tenure for Black Academics
Authors Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy provide dos, don'ts, advice and support.Posted on August 14, 2008 2:40 PM • 1 Comments •
It's SO Not Fair For You Women To Hang Out Together!
The womanist is "not a separatist, except periodically, for health".Posted on August 5, 2008 12:04 AM • 27 Comments •
A Versatile Strategy
I've been sorting through books lately, in an effort to cull and control my ever-burgeoning collection, and of course I have to browse through each book to decide if I want to keep it. It's a slow, but rewarding process....Posted on July 20, 2008 11:30 PM • 2 Comments •
Why I Do Blog
Just sit right down with Zuska for awhile and get in touch with your Inner Pissed Off Woman.Posted on June 23, 2008 7:37 PM • 14 Comments •
Building Community Through Conversation
Because we can't keep our mouths shut forever, nor can we always stay locked safely within our homes, it is inevitable that we must interact with and speak to other human beings. And because of this, it is (nearly) inevitable...Posted on June 9, 2008 5:57 PM • 8 Comments •
Queen Bees, Old and Young
Being a woman is no guarantee that you will respect other women and/or realize that feminism has some valid points to make.Posted on April 30, 2008 12:34 PM • 10 Comments •
Pseudonymous Writing: Two Views
Pseudonymous blogging - and commenting - is common. Some like it, some don't; some see the need for it, some don't. Whatever side you're on, you might be interested in these two recent columns from the Chronicle of Higher Education....Posted on March 31, 2008 7:08 PM • 4 Comments •
Advice From "Becoming a Writer"
Time and energy spent in efforts to educate knuckleheads about women's abilities and the barriers they face is time and energy that can't be spent for some other creative endeavor.Posted on March 27, 2008 6:03 PM • 5 Comments •
Links for 3-4-2008
Janet Stemwedel has a lengthy, informative, interesting post on that eternally troublesome question: When in my graduate career should I have a baby? After reading it, I am put in mind of that New Yorker cartoon with the guy on...Posted on March 4, 2008 9:59 PM • 2 Comments •
Health Round-up From The Pharmboy
There's been some quite lively blogging recently over at Abel Pharmboy's pad. Of particular note was the live-blogged vasectomy: Anyway, as a medical blogger, I will try to liveblog the process from my Palm Treo 700p at the Hospital-That-Tobacco-Built. While...Posted on February 29, 2008 11:53 PM • 7 Comments •
I'm Definitely In Need of Renewal of Some Sort!
Skookumchick wants me to talk about renewal for the March Scientiae. I will try, though I'm sure this would be much easier for me if I had already undergone some form of said renewal. What do I find compelling about...Posted on February 28, 2008 4:48 PM • 10 Comments •
Changing the Culture of Science in Japan
What happens when you speak up about gender inequity in Japan's science culture? Why, you can expect to be accused of "tarnishing the reputation" of the university, that's what. That's what happened to biophysicist Mitiko Go when she spoke out...Posted on February 21, 2008 2:42 PM • 6 Comments •
Are You Feeling Like An Imposter?
If you are, you may want to read this article over at ScienceCareers. It's very informative, with a link or two to some resources, and what's even cooler, it features quotes from Mrs. Whatsit (named "Abigail" in the article) and...Posted on February 15, 2008 12:28 PM • 5 Comments •
Whose Issue Is This?
After all, the kid you're raising today may be the person wiping my ass someday in the nursing home.Posted on February 13, 2008 3:50 PM • 40 Comments •
Another Bloggy Dry Spell
It has been difficult to get back into a regular rhythm of blogging after all the time off when I was dealing with stuff for my mom. I think all that took more of a toll on me than I...Posted on February 11, 2008 3:49 PM • 2 Comments •
Another Perspective On Delineating Funny/Not-Funny
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting article today about the "issue of cultural sensitivity...in the world of comedy". Comedy: When The Laughing Stops looks at how comedians struggle with knowing where to draw the line - and when to go...Posted on January 30, 2008 1:51 PM • 46 Comments •
Why Boing Boing Doesn't Blog About Housework
Gender, and sexual orientation, and race, can come through in your blogging by what you do (or do not) attend to in your posts.Posted on January 28, 2008 10:49 PM • 13 Comments •
What We Talked About At The NC Science Blogging Conference
...making the decision to speak out needs to be a well-informed one: what will I risk? is it worth it? can I live with the potential consequences?Posted on January 22, 2008 11:12 PM • 4 Comments •
Bad Advice On Dealing With Harassment From An Associate Dean
Here we are in 2007, and you can be an associate dean at a prestigious institution of higher education, and still be completely clueless about campus sexual harassment policy and its legal implications.Posted on November 1, 2007 3:15 PM • 9 Comments •
It Helps To Speak The Language When You're Thinking About Gender
It's maddening that something as simple as how I wear my hair can be fraught with gender connotations.Posted on October 29, 2007 6:39 PM • 43 Comments •
Plant Anyway
So, it's Blog Action Day, and we're all supposed to post something related to the environment. Science Woman has a very hopeful post about how "having a daughter has brought the idea of intergenerational responsibility into much sharper focus" for...Posted on October 15, 2007 8:34 PM • 1 Comments •
How Do You Find Part-Time Work In Science?
How do you maintain a career in science when you can't work full-time?Posted on October 8, 2007 11:32 PM • 13 Comments •
Mosquito Men
Female Science Professor works with Professor Troll. Perhaps many of you have a similar colleague or acquaintance. What do you do when you constantly have to rub shoulders with Professor Troll's ilk? Like mosquitoes in summer, they buzz around strong,...Posted on September 11, 2007 4:59 PM • 1 Comments •
The Importance of Leadership
It isn't enough to merely abstain from attending the cock-fight, so to speak.Posted on August 22, 2007 3:29 PM • 0 Comments •
Female Science Professor's Scary Stories
We learn our gender politics early and often, and in the strangest of places.Posted on August 15, 2007 6:59 PM • 4 Comments •
Where Am I Supposed To Put This Bloody Thing?
Where, indeed, did those women go to answer nature's call all those years when the buildings had few or no women's restrooms?Posted on August 11, 2007 9:16 AM • 13 Comments •
Strong, Silent Men Wax Eloquent In Print To Refute Mehl Study
If women and men are the same, how will we know what makes a Real Man?Posted on July 31, 2007 8:27 PM • 27 Comments •
How Do You Balance Nothing?
I don't know how to find balance, because I imagine there's nothing to balance.Posted on July 30, 2007 11:45 PM • 9 Comments •
Must Read C (of Higher) E
That fabulous group of women, the X-Gals, is back with the last of their installments in the Chronicle of Higher Education and it is truly Must Read C (of Higher) E. This last installment is titled On the Origin of...Posted on July 24, 2007 2:13 PM • 4 Comments •
Fast-Track Mommy Manual
The key phrase here is "institutional strategies".Posted on May 31, 2007 2:12 PM • 2 Comments •
National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife
Info, resources, network, academic life - it's all good.Posted on May 4, 2007 7:00 PM • 1 Comments •
SciAm Reports: ScienceBlogger Is Attractive!!!
what the f*ck does that have to do with anything in the story?Posted on April 27, 2007 9:18 PM • 55 Comments •
Sexual Harassment: A Question of Power
It's like tomcats spraying to mark their territory.Posted on April 6, 2007 2:40 PM • 8 Comments •
Life as a Leak, Part 3
One day you're a scientist, the next day you're not?Posted on April 2, 2007 3:16 PM • 11 Comments •
Life as a Leak, Part 2
Leaving academia meant feeling giddily untethered, almost adrift.Posted on March 23, 2007 8:47 PM • 22 Comments •
Life as a Leak, Part 1
To sum up: either she stinks, or she's unworthy.Posted on March 22, 2007 7:23 PM • 21 Comments •
Blogjam
The things I write often don't leave me feeling sunny.Posted on March 21, 2007 11:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Symbolic Bodyguards
the new handheld Unwanted Male Attention Repellent of choice is a cell phone!Posted on February 22, 2007 5:35 PM • 5 Comments •
What Are Tears For?
Women's rage, you see, is not supposed to exist,Posted on February 15, 2007 1:40 PM • 3 Comments •
Freedom of Speech in Science
Do scientists get it just right, like Baby Bear's porridge for Goldilocks?Posted on February 11, 2007 1:03 AM • 1 Comments •
Distinguished Schmuck Visits, Misbehaves
Let gender bias incidents make men uncomfortable, let it be something they have to deal with.Posted on January 29, 2007 12:54 PM • 44 Comments •
"Conversations About The Tribe"
Dr. Free-Ride has graciously put the slides from her talk at the Science Blogging Conference on the conference wiki, so I'm thinking I can go ahead and blog about the stuff I thought I couldn't blog about in my earlier...Posted on January 25, 2007 2:42 PM • 10 Comments •
"Conversations We Need To Have"
Dr. Free-Ride talked about the need for community and communication as key ingredients for human beings to flourish.Posted on January 24, 2007 4:03 PM • 1 Comments •
Aunty Zuska's Impeccable Advice For Worried Dads
Everyone says "encourage your daughters to stick with math and science". And you want to do it. You're proud of your daughter, you want her to have every option in the world open to her. But what do you do...Posted on January 18, 2007 1:28 PM • 12 Comments •
Razib: Head Up His Ass On The Women, Intelligence, & Beauty Issue
razib has his head so far up his ass he can see his stomach.Posted on December 15, 2006 12:33 AM • 63 Comments •
The X-Gals on Motherhood and ChildCare
The link is not between productivity and having children. It's between productivity and child care.Posted on December 6, 2006 10:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Why I Am Not Polite
I curse him, as I curse every sexual harrasser, in the following manner:Posted on December 4, 2006 9:25 PM • 40 Comments •
What's Wrong With This Statement?
People ought to know their place and keep to it.Posted on November 21, 2006 9:30 AM • 1 Comments •
How To Suppress Women's Science and Engineering
She didn't do science. (But if it's clear she did the deed...)Posted on November 20, 2006 2:05 PM • 8 Comments •
Shake Off The Dust...
Go not into the way of the misogynists, and into any city of the Resistants enter ye not.Posted on November 15, 2006 12:53 PM • 18 Comments •
The Tender Sensibilities of Men
The mere thought of all those panel members up there, sans penis, is enough to make any man quake in his shoes.Posted on November 12, 2006 10:30 AM • 6 Comments •
Central Florida's Mujeres Universitarias Asociadas
Belonging to a group like MUA just might reduce your daily need to puke on somebody's shoes.Posted on November 8, 2006 5:38 PM • 0 Comments •
The Life of a Postdoc
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.Posted on November 8, 2006 9:30 AM • 6 Comments •
