Women Paid Poorly, Men Behaving Badly - What Else Is New?
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Sexual Harassment:
A Reply to Dr. Isis
Just because I subscribe to a grim view of reality doesn't mean I think that reality is unchangeable.Posted on September 24, 2008 3:42 PM • 30 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 •
Women With Their Sexy Hawt Bodies: How's A Man To Look Away?
Clearly it's not the visual presence of women's tits that is responsible for harassment and other shameful male behavior.Posted on August 19, 2008 8:37 PM • 166 Comments •
Locking the Barn Door
I really wonder what you have to do to get fired from a university.Posted on August 14, 2008 12:50 PM • 21 Comments •
Weber v. Fermilab - An Update
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 on April 3, 2008 6:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Links for 3-4-2008
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 on March 4, 2008 9:59 PM • 2 Comments •
Bad Advice On Dealing With Harassment From An Associate Dean
Here we are in 2007, and you can be an associate dean at a prestigious institution of higher education, and still be completely clueless about campus sexual harassment policy and its legal implications.Posted on November 1, 2007 3:15 PM • 9 Comments •
The Authorities: Always Looking Out For Women
Potential academic rapists, take note: if you want to get off with just the minor inconvenience of house arrest, make sure to portray yourself as doing research of immense "societal value".Posted on September 12, 2007 4:01 PM • 4 Comments •
Costly Sex Discrimination Puts University Administrators In The Hot Seat
Yes, yes, because lawsuits are the one and only measure of how much gender discrimination is going on at your universityPosted on July 25, 2007 2:59 PM • 2 Comments •
The Price of Bias
I long for the days when I can stop reporting about women being groped in laboratories.Posted on July 17, 2007 3:56 PM • 3 Comments •
But She's So Cute!
Maybe this is why there's such a strong myth that hot women don't do science.Posted on June 29, 2007 5:18 PM • 5 Comments •
Sexual Harassment: A Question of Power
It's like tomcats spraying to mark their territory.Posted on April 6, 2007 2:40 PM • 8 Comments •
Letter to AAUW in Support of Kay Weber
Absinthe has asked me to do a mirror post of her post on this issue. So, here it is. Several months ago I told you about the Kay Weber v Fremilab lawsuit in my post Class action lawsuits. If you...Posted on February 22, 2007 7:12 PM • 0 Comments •
Why I Am Not Polite
I curse him, as I curse every sexual harrasser, in the following manner:Posted on December 4, 2006 9:25 PM • 40 Comments •
Joeseph Schlessinger: Yale's Liability
You may know him now as the jerk-ass who allegedly sexually harassed his secretaryPosted on December 4, 2006 11:04 AM • 7 Comments •
Methods of Prohibition
you wouldn't expect that dogturd of a man to be sexually abusing herPosted on November 20, 2006 4:18 PM • 2 Comments •
Who's a Leader?
...it is unrealistic to think that I will ever quit yelling about men in engineering, at least until the revolution comes
Posted on September 7, 2006 10:38 AM • 3 Comments •
Hostile Environment - Examples
So, what would be an example of someone creating a hostile environment in the workplace or educational setting? An example of "frequent, non-trivial acts of a sexual nature" might be, oh, say repeatedly raping your lab assistant nearly 80 times....Posted on September 6, 2006 6:39 PM • 20 Comments •
A Hard Doom
Women scientists and engineers are swimming - and choking - in the effluent from the discrimination factories.
Posted on September 6, 2006 5:36 PM • 4 Comments •
