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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...
Posted by Zuska at 7:10 PM • 5 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...
Posted by Zuska at 4:34 PM • 9 Comments •
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.
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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.
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: Burns My Shorts
So, to recap: A couple of women are having a conversation, and the topic turns to tit-ogling. "No one should be staring at my tits in the workplace," they all agree. "That makes me uncomfortable, creates a hostile work environment,...
Posted by Zuska at 9:25 AM • 82 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
Clearly it's not the visual presence of women's tits that is responsible for harassment and other shameful male behavior.
Posted by Zuska at 8:37 PM • 168 Comments •
Category: Sex Offenders
I really wonder what you have to do to get fired from a university.
Posted by Zuska at 12:50 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Announcements
I've mentioned Kay Weber and her lawsuit against Fermilab on this blog before. Sherry Towers forwarded an email to me that gives an update on Kay's situation:...
Posted by Zuska at 6:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
Janet Stemwedel has a lengthy, informative, interesting post on that eternally troublesome question: When in my graduate career should I have a baby? After reading it, I am put in mind of that New Yorker cartoon with the guy on...
Posted by Zuska at 9:59 PM • 2 Comments •
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