The Proper Way To Be A Woman In Science
The problem, you see, is that women aren't really allowed to be ANYTHING in science.Posted on November 14, 2008 9:02 AM • 70 Comments •
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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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Stereotypes We Know And Love:
PC vs Mac: Race and Gender in Advertising
Mac commercials depend upon the stereotype of the PC user as a geeky un-cool white dude.Posted on October 1, 2008 4:16 PM • 29 Comments •
Women and Their Sexy Hawt Bodies: Reprise
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 on September 10, 2008 9:25 AM • 82 Comments •
Stereotype Threat in a Real-Life Setting
A great post at eduwonkette looks at gender and stereotype threat in math performance. Stereotype threat has been well-documented in "laboratory" settings, but eduwonkette reports on a study in a real-life setting: These men and women were, by all accounts,...Posted on August 4, 2008 12:08 PM • 6 Comments •
Physioprof at Feministe
Hello, dear readers...if there are any of you left...I've been away for a week taking care of mom, plus the usual migraine breaks...back home now, and hoping to get back in the blogging groove asap. Meanwhile, Physioprof is off guest-blogging...Posted on July 16, 2008 10:11 PM • 10 Comments •
The Bimbo Game
Rarely, it happens that I am left speechless....Posted on June 30, 2008 3:07 PM • 6 Comments •
It's Just No Use, Girls: A Profound Analysis of Gender and Engineering
There is Boy Stuff, and there is Girl Stuff. Engineering is Boy Stuff.Posted on April 30, 2008 6:56 PM • 63 Comments •
The Reproduction of Sexism
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 on April 30, 2008 11:22 AM • 10 Comments •
Explaining (Away) Women Geeks
The article on Mayer follows this pattern, simultaneously overexposing and erasing her.Posted on April 8, 2008 4:26 PM • 106 Comments •
From the Department of Critically Needed New 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?...Posted on April 5, 2008 9:29 PM • 19 Comments •
Some More Links for 3-17-2008
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...Posted on March 17, 2008 4:05 PM • 1 Comments •
You Have To See It To Believe It
Warning: May increase blood pressure.Posted on March 11, 2008 4:07 PM • 4 Comments •
Selling Your Blog With Cheesecake
Afarensis, I puke upon your pseudonymous shoes.Posted on March 6, 2008 4:34 PM • 15 Comments •
Telling The Story Of The Group
Raise your hand if you've been to diversity camp! You know - sometime during the academic year, your department head or dean announces there's going to be a diversity meeting/seminar/retreat. People grudgingly attend, they do some exercises to maybe show...Posted on January 31, 2008 3:23 PM • 5 Comments •
A Gender-and-Science Paradox
Boys will be boys, with their technological toys, and girls will take care of the relationships at work.Posted on January 28, 2008 9:33 PM • 4 Comments •
Scientific Nail Polish
I have no time for a real entry, but if you haven't yet had your daily quota of sexist nonsense, check out these two links. Melissa McEwan parses the gender segregation at the Discovery Channel Store. (Thanks to Bora for...Posted on December 7, 2007 4:36 PM • 1 Comments •
Stuff I Read and Thought You'd Like
Some great posts on other blogs you may have missed reading: Language Log has a great critique of the new PBS show WordGirl, which I found via Fairer Science. If that's not enough to make you grind your teeth, then...Posted on October 27, 2007 11:08 AM • 0 Comments •
Parsing the Reactions to the Watson Imbroglio
Academic freedom doesn't exist to benefit people who twist or ignore science to serve lies.Posted on October 19, 2007 6:53 PM • 37 Comments •
Watson to Africa: You're All Dumb
Jim Watson is a consummate ass. I don't care if he discovered the secret of life, the universe, and everything, he's still a misogynistic racist miserable S.O.B.Posted on October 17, 2007 4:30 PM • 30 Comments •
"Study Finds Men, Women Pretty Much The Same"
I love it. You must read this book review in the TimesOnline (found via Arts & Letters Daily) of Deborah Cameron's The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? Commenting on Cameron's take on...Posted on October 12, 2007 2:12 PM • 1 Comments •
How To Train Women For Their Futures
If she insists on a career, let her know that maids are in need in all hotels and many of our finer families' homes.Posted on September 10, 2007 4:59 PM • 6 Comments •
Researchers Claim Men Like Hot Women!
Why don't we all just watch Jerry Springer instead? We'd get the same amount of insight into human nature.Posted on September 6, 2007 3:41 PM • 10 Comments •
The Caveman Mystique
Alert reader Linda Carpenter has given me a heads-up about a forthcoming book that is a "take down of ev-psych style cave-masculinity". Ooh, that sounds tasty! The book is The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and...Posted on August 30, 2007 10:22 PM • 1 Comments •
The Biology of Pink
Perhaps you don't remember an entry I wrote about a year ago titled Pink Is For Boys, Blue Is For Girls. I linked to a Fairer Science post that was debunking a Times Online editorial suggesting girls had a biologically...Posted on August 22, 2007 3:08 PM • 6 Comments •
Women Swarm Nation's Technical Campuses
Why, wastecans all over campus will be full of used menstrual pads and tampons!Posted on August 8, 2007 5:16 PM • 12 Comments •
