Women Paid Poorly, Men Behaving Badly - What Else Is New?
Hmmm...makes you wonder why exactly he's so anxious to have this official proclamation of his innocence.Posted on November 7, 2008 6:22 PM • 6 Comments •
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Some More Links for 3-17-2008
Good stuff from the AWIS Washington Wire: A new website on reducing stereotype threat. The engineering of ice cream, from Yale's first female dean of engineering. "More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made...Posted on March 17, 2008 4:05 PM • 1 Comments •
Quantitative Data Show the Dearth of Women on Science and Engineering Faculties
Maybe you've been wondering just exactly how few women scientists and engineers there are in academia in the U.S. Or, to put it another way, maybe you've wondered just exactly how much men scientists and engineers are overrepresented in academia....Posted on February 27, 2008 1:48 PM • 14 Comments •
NIH On Diversity & Child Care
By way of the Chronicle news blog: The National Institutes of Health has released new guidance about its policies on diversity and on child care. One set of guidelines, or "frequently asked questions," released Friday, concerns the NIH's efforts to...Posted on August 29, 2007 4:25 PM • 1 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 •
Debating the Evidence
This book should challenge readers' emotional and political biases through empirical science.Posted on February 2, 2007 3:35 PM • 4 Comments •
Global Warming In The Right World
...in the Right world, global warming does not exist.Posted on December 13, 2006 11:15 AM • 13 Comments •
Is Your Report Biased? How To Tell.
There were nine penises on the Iraq Study Group, so bias clearly isn't an issue here.Posted on December 12, 2006 7:09 PM • 7 Comments •
Ginger Serves Up A Tasty 28th Feminist Carnival
The 28th Carnival of the Feminists is up at Diary of a Freak Magnet, and it's a tasty one. Yours truly has made the Carnival! Yay! That's fun. Go check it out. Lots and lots and lots of good stuff....Posted on December 6, 2006 2:21 PM • 0 Comments •
Michael Issues a Gender Equity Challenge!
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...Posted on November 2, 2006 4:05 PM • 5 Comments •
African-American Men: 4.3% of College Enrollment Since 1976!!!!
I am breaking my word from yesterday in order to post news about this report because the results are so disturbing I can't keep them to myself. I want someone else to be upset with me. From The Chronicle of...Posted on October 3, 2006 2:00 PM • 7 Comments •
AWIS Washington Wire and "Beyond Bias and Barriers" Report
And they call us the weaker sex. Bunch of timid turf-wardens. Hah!
Posted on September 19, 2006 12:29 PM • 23 Comments •
Leaky Pipelines, Or Locked Doors?
Something important we need to keep in mind: when we say "women" we are usually, unconsciously, thinking "white" at the same time.
Posted on September 18, 2006 1:08 PM • 5 Comments •
Women Are, or Are Not, Doing Science, And Should Be Encouraged
...reports like this do come in handy when dealing with...cretins [like your] department head, dean, provost, or university president.
Posted on September 6, 2006 3:18 PM • 7 Comments •
