Women Paid Poorly, Men Behaving Badly - What Else Is New?
Category: Report Roundup
Hmmm...makes you wonder why exactly he's so anxious to have this official proclamation of his innocence.
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Category: Report Roundup
Hmmm...makes you wonder why exactly he's so anxious to have this official proclamation of his innocence.
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Category: Linkfest
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...
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Category: Naming Experience
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....
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Category: Announcements
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...
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Category: Naming Experience
To sum up: either she stinks, or she's unworthy.
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Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
This book should challenge readers' emotional and political biases through empirical science.
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Category: Ministry of Science and Culture
...in the Right world, global warming does not exist.
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Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
There were nine penises on the Iraq Study Group, so bias clearly isn't an issue here.
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Category: Report Roundup
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....
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Category: Sex Discrimination
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...
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