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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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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: 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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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,...
Posted by Zuska at 3:30 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
Reader JC left a comment on a recent post about sexual harassment that led me to a Feminist Law Professor post on a sexual harassment lawsuit against Brigham & Women's Hospital. It is a post well worth reading, if you...
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Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
The fact is, you can't pick sexual harassers out of a crowd. They don't have a mark on their foreheads.
Posted by Zuska at 4:27 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Report Roundup
Hmmm...makes you wonder why exactly he's so anxious to have this official proclamation of his innocence.
Posted by Zuska at 6:22 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Manifestoes
Just because I subscribe to a grim view of reality doesn't mean I think that reality is unchangeable.
Posted by Zuska at 3:42 PM • 30 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
The womanist is "not a separatist, except periodically, for health".
Posted by Zuska at 12:04 AM • 27 Comments •
Category: Gendering Technology
There is Boy Stuff, and there is Girl Stuff. Engineering is Boy Stuff.
Posted by Zuska at 6:56 PM • 63 Comments •
Category: Naming Experience
"But we can't have the NAS lowering its standards just to admit women/minorities!"
Posted by Zuska at 1:16 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Outrage of the Week
For a long time now, I have not been what you would call a believer in progress. That is, I do not think things are bound to improve in the gender equity arena. I think we are in the middle...
Posted by Zuska at 11:22 AM • 11 Comments •
