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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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Everything Old Is New Again: ZOMFG!!! Ads Influence Our Media!

Category: Feminist Foremothers

As it stands now, Scienceblogs is more like Ms Magazine than Cosmopolitan, both in terms of its ability to attract advertising, and in the types of advertising its readers - and writers/workers - will tolerate without revolt.

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What's So Great About Your STEMmy Lifestyle Anyway? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

Category: Naming Experience

Why should any woman get any degree in a STEM discipline? Especially if she has to wade through tons of bullshit courses to get there, and part of the learning, it appears, has to do with learning how to be someone you aren't? Some other gender, some other race - or some other social class?

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The Differential Impacts of Sexist Gender Role Expectations

Category: Stereotypes We Know And Love

Every once in awhile I do manage to get out to a social sort of event. Recently I was at one such thing. And overhead the following

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Things Are Getting Better All The Time...

Category: Blog I Am Reading Today

Really, they are. Read this to see just how much better!

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This Just In: Scientists Discover True Nature of Feminists!

Category: Geekalicious

At the hearing, the 70's, graying hair cropped close to her head, went on record as "admiring your awesome internet technology".

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Unplanned Work-Life Balance 4: Organize! Unionize!

Category: Feminist Foremothers

Let us now consider the home as a worksite, and domestic work as actual labor. With a video link!

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Work-Life Balance 3: Less Navel-Gazing, More Scholarly And Institutional Structure Analysis!

Category: Manifestoes

I don't really give a rat's ass whether or not DrugMonkey or PZ wash the dishes or scrub the toilets at their respective houses, or whether they hired a cleaning service to do so.

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Isn't Rape Really Just All About Sex?

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

It's a floor wax. No, a dessert topping. But wait! It's BOTH!!!!! What does this have to do with understanding rape?

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Work-Life Balance 2: On Stepping Up To The Plate

Category: Daily Struggles

Even if fifty dudes got together and wrote A Post, on the same day, about balancing work and family, it would still be like that Special Section on The Rare and Strange Creatures Known as Women-in-Science published annually by Glamour Journal.

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Work-Life Balance 1: Women, The Media Totally Support You!

Category: Burns My Shorts

Work-life balance: people have been talking about it. Wait, that's not right. Women have been talking about it. And have been talked at about it, by some people.

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