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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.
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.
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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Category: Blog I Am Reading Today
A thousand years ago, when I was a graduate student, we often used to grumble and joke amongst ourselves about the "sacred priesthood of science".
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Category: Burns My Shorts
Via Female Science Professor, 'Study: Women create 'their own glass ceiling': A new study shows female managers are more than three times as likely as their male counterparts to underrate their bosses' opinions of their job performance. The discrepancy increases...
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Category: Ludicrous Language
Everybody's talking about Unscientific America 'round these parts lately. I've almost finished reading it and will post a review of my own sometime soon. In the meantime...Isis has a post up where she makes note of ERV's displeasure with the...
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Category: Blog I Am Reading Today
Mmmm...now this is my kinda fashion blog!
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Category: Geekalicious
Maybe a good argument can't really stand on its own against established dogma, without a little help.
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Category: Burns My Shorts
This article was bizarrely stashed in the business section of the Philadelphia Inquirer, rather than reported as Science news, or even just as general news. Going back to 1969, a chemist with no soul named Manfred DeRewal bought a local...
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Category: Race Matters
What makes you a member of family, or a citizen of a nation? Over at Sciencewoman, Alice reports on a session she attended at this year's NWSA conference: In a session on the technologies of citizenship, Banu Submramaniam of the...
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Category: Naming Experience
"But we can't have the NAS lowering its standards just to admit women/minorities!"
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Category: Burns My Shorts
UPDATE: After posting this entry, I found out that the paper I discussed here is not actually slated at this time to be published in a peer-reviewed journal; it is merely available as a preprint. Nevertheless, I hear that the...
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Category: Gendering Technology
What is it that the world really needs? What should we be devoting our time, energy, and talent to, in order to make this a better world? Climate research? No. Renewable energy? No. Sustainable living? No. Gardening with native plants?...
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