Why Aren't You Reading This?:
I've been sorting through books lately, in an effort to cull and control my ever-burgeoning collection, and of course I have to browse through each book to decide if I want to keep it. It's a slow, but rewarding process....
Posted on July 20, 2008 11:30 PM • 2 Comments •
The focus of the handbook is not "how to succeed just like a man", but on how to manage the effects of gender dynamics and schemas.
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Posted on May 2, 2008 6:50 PM • 8 Comments •
From the AWIS Washington Wire: A new collection of essays, Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, explores how taking gender into account in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering can enhance human knowledge. Inside Higher Ed has a conversation...
Posted on May 1, 2008 9:02 AM • 8 Comments •
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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Posted on April 17, 2008 7:23 PM • 40 Comments •
The article on Mayer follows this pattern, simultaneously overexposing and erasing her.
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Posted on April 8, 2008 4:26 PM • 106 Comments •
The keys are native plants in a multi-storied landscape, from ground cover to perennials to shrubs to small and large trees.
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Posted on March 28, 2008 4:14 PM • 7 Comments •
Time and energy spent in efforts to educate knuckleheads about women's abilities and the barriers they face is time and energy that can't be spent for some other creative endeavor.
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Posted on March 27, 2008 6:03 PM • 5 Comments •
Bora has posted an interview with me at A Blog Around the Clock. See here for all the interviews in the series. He keeps adding new ones so check back now and then. Via the Chronicle news blog, I found...
Posted on March 6, 2008 3:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Maria told me about WOC PhD. A link in this post led me to the Feminist Studies Collections: Women of Color & Women Worldwide pages, from which I hopped to the Women of Color page from the Wisconsin Women's Studies...
Posted on March 5, 2008 6:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Alice has a very good post over at On Being A Scientist And A Woman about resources on implicit bias, including some really nice stuff to help you counteract implicit bias in reviewing/hiring situations. Go read it!...
Posted on February 21, 2008 5:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Well, I guess if it only benefits women it isn't "beneficial".
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Posted on February 14, 2008 6:07 PM • 29 Comments •
Some interesting things came across my listservs this week; one from WEPAN, another from the WMST-L listserv: a new book on recruiting women in IT, and a very interesting call for papers. Details after the jump....
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Posted on January 16, 2008 10:04 PM • 0 Comments •
Here are some books you should be reading in your massive amounts of spare time.
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Posted on January 15, 2008 2:10 PM • 2 Comments •
The Family and Medical Leave Act is such a minimal start. I suppose it's better than nothing, but just barely.
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Posted on January 9, 2008 4:18 PM • 16 Comments •
Ask a Scienceblogger asks: " What's the deal with "virgin birth" (parthenogenesis)?" Many people, when they hear "virgin birth", think of the Virgin Mary. But all good Catholics know that Mary, Queen of Heaven, is not a true example...
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Posted on December 3, 2007 9:00 AM • 30 Comments •
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 •
In case you are thinking of community colleges as your "safety" academic career, you might want to do some reading up on them to develop your understanding of their unique mission.
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Posted on October 25, 2007 2:16 PM • 9 Comments •
This week's Friday Bookshelf is actually a repeat of a blog post from the old blog site. It begins with a question: Who was Annie Montague Alexander?...
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Posted on October 19, 2007 2:27 PM • 2 Comments •
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 •
MentorNet, the premier e-mentoring organization, has recently launched the MentorNet Blog. Mary Fernandez tells us in the inaugural entry: In this blog, I plan to explore the inspiring, unexpected, and exciting reasons to choose a STEM career, and I am...
Posted on October 9, 2007 1:40 PM • 0 Comments •
Skookumchick offers up a devastating dissection of a mentoring workshop she was required to attend...
Posted on October 4, 2007 2:23 PM • 0 Comments •
There's a wonderful three-part interview with Shobita Parthasarathy, author of Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care , over at The World's Fair. The interview is broken up into three parts: Part 1, Part...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
I saw this advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action, by Peter Schmidt. Schmidt is a deputy editor at the Chronicle. I don't have a...
Posted on September 10, 2007 4:42 PM • 0 Comments •
It's late summer, and the harvest is bountiful, and so with the contributions to Scientiae. Thanks to all of you who submitted such fabulous posts. Some of you even wrote two posts! It must be that back-to-school enthusiasm. As you...
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Posted on September 2, 2007 6:50 PM • 9 Comments •
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 •
You must read what Pat has to say about APS's CSWP compiling a list of female-friendly physics departments.
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Posted on August 20, 2007 7:41 PM • 6 Comments •
G.I. Joe rampaged through the prom with his gun and took Barbie hostage.
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Posted on August 14, 2007 3:11 AM • 16 Comments •
Benjamin Cohen at The World's Fair has an excellent post up that should interest many readers of this blog. It is an interview with David Hess, author of Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in...
Posted on August 13, 2007 10:53 PM • 1 Comments •
The latest Scientiae is up over at Twice's place. Haven't browsed through it all yet, but it's always good reading, so go read!...
Posted on August 3, 2007 12:28 PM • 0 Comments •
How 'bout that? Diversity has a gender, and it's female.
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Posted on July 27, 2007 8:02 PM • 1 Comments •
Tara at Aetiology has a review of Danica McKellar's new book Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind Or Breaking A Nail. She also snagged an interview with McKellar which you can find here....
Posted on July 25, 2007 2:19 PM • 9 Comments •
That fabulous group of women, the X-Gals, is back with the last of their installments in the Chronicle of Higher Education and it is truly Must Read C (of Higher) E. This last installment is titled On the Origin of...
Posted on July 24, 2007 2:13 PM • 4 Comments •
Do you take off your wedding ring before the interview?
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Posted on July 11, 2007 2:17 PM • 8 Comments •
The latest Scientiae Carnival is up at Amelie's Welt; the topic is responsibility. In a completely irresponsible move, I missed the deadline for contributions this time around, my first time. I can point to migraines and doctor appointments and MRI...
Posted on July 5, 2007 11:54 PM • 0 Comments •
>"Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,"
Posted on June 21, 2007 5:12 PM • 2 Comments •
I've spent years collecting a mini-library of books on gender and science & engineering.
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Posted on June 8, 2007 4:07 PM • 6 Comments •
Yes, it's Scientiae Carnival time again! FemaleCSGradStudent has asked us "How We Are Hungry", and has collated and contextualized a most interesting set of responses. Maybe you want to go visit Kat on a Wire and leave her a comment....
Posted on June 1, 2007 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
The key phrase here is "institutional strategies".
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Posted on May 31, 2007 2:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Leaking never looked so good!
Posted on May 29, 2007 7:32 PM • 2 Comments •
once I'd made this comparison, I could get no further with
Cosmic Jackpot
Posted on May 22, 2007 12:28 PM • 11 Comments •
the topic is "mothers and others, those who influenced us along the way..."
Posted on May 17, 2007 11:59 AM • 0 Comments •
Bora notes that some people are wondering why there aren't more Indian (or Serbian) science bloggers. Bora links to an interesting post from Selva on this topic. This is all very ironic to me because just two days ago I...
Posted on May 4, 2007 7:25 PM • 1 Comments •
You might want to check out this horror story...
Posted on May 1, 2007 7:50 PM • 1 Comments •
Mosey on over to Lab Cat's place and check out the third Scientiae. As is becoming the standard, lots of good stuff....
Posted on April 2, 2007 4:41 PM • 0 Comments •
I missed posting on this the day it went up because of my stupid health issues, but the first Scientiae carnival is up thanks to Skookumchick over at Rants of a Feminist Engineer! Go forth and read! Also note that...
Posted on March 2, 2007 7:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Attention to history shows that progress is not inevitable.
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Posted on February 27, 2007 11:06 PM • 1 Comments •
The fabulous folks at Fairer Science, coming back from a great experience at the AAAS conference, have decided to share with all of us a few of their snazzy power point presentations:...
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Posted on February 26, 2007 6:48 PM • 0 Comments •
Thanks to Skookumchick, there's a new blog carnival in town called Scientiae! This is a blog carnival that compiles posts written about the broad topic of "women in STEM," (STEM=science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and may include posts: stories about...
Posted on February 26, 2007 3:07 PM • 0 Comments •
This is the third of three discussion posts for Week 1 of Feminist Theory and the Joy of Science. You can find all posts for this course by going to the http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/archives.php>archives and clicking on "Joy of Science" under in...
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Posted on February 13, 2007 4:35 PM • 1 Comments •
This is the second of three discussion posts for Week 1 of Feminist Theory and the Joy of Science. You can find all posts for this course by going to the archives and clicking on "Joy of Science" under in...
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Posted on February 12, 2007 6:42 PM • 7 Comments •
Are women in engineering programs a waste of time and resources?
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Posted on February 12, 2007 9:59 AM • 15 Comments •
"It's akin to a sexual thrill."
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Posted on February 12, 2007 9:29 AM • 3 Comments •
Welcome to the first day of our course on "Feminist Theory and the Joy of Science". This post will be a presentation of the summaries for each of this week's assigned readings. If you were not able to do the...
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Posted on February 12, 2007 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
I like to scan the New Scholarly Books section of the Chronicle of Higher Education; every so often, something interesting in History of Science or Women's Studies pops up. Recently I saw a little blurb under history of science that...
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Posted on February 6, 2007 2:16 PM • 0 Comments •
This book should challenge readers' emotional and political biases through empirical science.
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Posted on February 2, 2007 3:35 PM • 4 Comments •
there's a new anthology by female Hispanic scientists and engineers!
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Posted on January 31, 2007 4:23 PM • 3 Comments •
Aren't feminists those hairy-armpit man-hating humorless dykes?
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Posted on January 31, 2007 3:37 PM • 38 Comments •
See Bill Hooker's comment about finding books for the course here. Bill's comment got held up a day or so in junk comments because of all the links in it. Sorry, Bill! But this would be helpful for anyone trying...
Posted on January 29, 2007 1:26 PM • 0 Comments •
the course will now start on Monday, Feb. 12!!
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Posted on January 29, 2007 8:41 AM • 1 Comments •
This course explores the existence of pleasure, intellectual excitement, and desire as an important component of theorizing and doing science and engineering.
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Posted on January 26, 2007 4:01 PM • 14 Comments •
it's even more wonderful when someone who is
not just like us steps up to do the mentoring.
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Posted on January 23, 2007 6:10 PM • 1 Comments •
Bora is about as wide as a matchstick and has the energy of a 3-year-old who just had a double espresso.
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Posted on January 22, 2007 7:29 PM • 5 Comments •
Yes, the 30th Carnival of Feminists is up at Girlistic's blog The Feminist Pulse. Girlistic is the ultimate feminist resource, where all things women-centered can be found within a few clicks. Providing education and entertainment, pop and politics, culture and...
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Posted on January 17, 2007 11:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Writing about the intimate and personal lives of women geeks, and putting that writing into the hands of young girls, is a political act
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Posted on January 16, 2007 4:55 PM • 24 Comments •
The 29th Carnival of Feminists is up at The Imponderabilia of Actual Life, and here's one of the categories: Sexism: In which we look at examples of sexism from all over the world - sometimes blatant, occasionally subtle, often insidious....
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Posted on December 20, 2006 1:33 PM • 1 Comments •
If you enjoy reading Inky Circus, then you are probably going to enjoy the latest endeavor from the women who bring you that blog. That is, Inkling Magazine - subtitled, "On the Hunch That Science Rocks!" I particular like this...
Posted on December 19, 2006 3:31 PM • 0 Comments •
She didn't do science. (But if it's clear she did the deed...)
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Posted on November 20, 2006 2:05 PM • 8 Comments •
Every woman in science or engineering should have some sort of support network of fabulous interesting women.
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Posted on November 7, 2006 6:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Regular reader and blogger Michael Anes wrote to tell me: I haven't heard any Scienceblogging on the gender equity report issued this morning and profiled on the Chronicle? Did you check it out?...My post and challenge is here -- I'd...
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Posted on November 2, 2006 4:05 PM • 5 Comments •
To ask real, serious, difficult questions about male reproductive health requires challenging ingrained assumptions about what it means to be a man.
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Posted on November 2, 2006 1:29 PM • 11 Comments •
So I'm at the Frontiers in Education conference, and there's so much good stuff going on my brain is on overload. Plus, there are other people here who call themselves feminist engineers! It was worth the price of admission just...
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Posted on October 30, 2006 11:15 PM • 0 Comments •
I'm reading two books at the moment (in addition to the five or so others I've started and gotten halfway through and not finished...well, they'll always be waiting for me to come back...someday...). The first is Sisters in Science: Conversations...
Posted on October 24, 2006 9:30 AM • 0 Comments •
"...a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - come to ask you, are you doing yours?"
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Posted on October 16, 2006 11:33 PM • 6 Comments •
"...when you are hungry yourself, you really know how poor people feel."
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Posted on October 15, 2006 11:12 PM • 5 Comments •
Dr. Shellie has a post on the National Academies report and the ensuing discussion on Inside Higher Ed. Dr. Shellie says: I am increasingly frustrated with the issue of discrimination against women in academia. Rhetorically, women are being put in...
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Posted on October 13, 2006 12:05 PM • 3 Comments •
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.
