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attackeng.jpg 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.

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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains

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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.

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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.

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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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How Many U.S. Counties Today Provide Abortion Services?

Category: Burns My Shorts

See if you can figure out...the answer to the blog post question.

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What Should a 20-year-old Proto-Feminist Guy Be Reading?

Category: Manly Men

I'm not suggesting we baby them and spoon feed them every bit of information they need to have. Just sayin', I didn't come to my gloriously enlightened feminist state all on my own.

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Links for 4-3-2009

Category: Linkfest

Scads of stuff I don't have time to blog adequately... Johns Hopkins Provost Kristina Johnson was nominated by President Obama to be under secretary of the Department of Energy in mid-March. From the email press release: She is a distinguished...

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Links for 03-20-2009

Category: Linkfest

NSF ADVANCE Workshop For Women Transitioning to Academic Careers The University of Washington's ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change received an award from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program to hold professional development workshops for Ph.D.-level women in industry, research labs,...

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Radio Stories and a Web Resource

Category: Resources

These may be of interest to readers of this blog: A new web resource, that's really a catalog of many resources: [Ruta Sevo has] posted about 100 recommended resources on women in science and engineering, organized into small chunks, calling...

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Kadath's Sound Advice To The Lovelorn

Category: Daily Struggles

"the one-step plan to not be a skeezy jerk when approaching women is..."

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Friday Bookshelf: Becoming Leaders

Category: Friday Bookshelf

The focus of the handbook is not "how to succeed just like a man", but on how to manage the effects of gender dynamics and schemas.

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Some More Links for 3-17-2008

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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Quantitative Data Show the Dearth of Women on Science and Engineering Faculties

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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Alice's Guide To Implicit Bias

Category: Positive Actions

Alice has a very good post over at On Being A Scientist And A Woman about resources on implicit bias, including some really nice stuff to help you counteract implicit bias in reviewing/hiring situations. Go read it!...

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