"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert Heinlein
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After the discussion here and elsewhere in yonder blogosphere about women and stereotyping, Cornelia Dean in the New York Times writes about recent meeting aimed at helping women advance in science, where bias still rages.
This fall, female scientists at Rice University here gathered promising…
I want to note three recent articles about science education. They may be dots worth connecting to each other, or they may not. I welcome your hypotheses, well grounded or tentative.
Via Michael Berube: "Women Gaining on Men in Advanced Fields". It seems like we've heard this kind of result…
Theodore Beale, a.k.a. "Vox Day", quote-miner and "Christian libertarian opinion columnist," apparently has issues with women in science. This via Ed Brayton:
Because they are the intellectual driving force of humanity, men will be fine. They will simply continue to do what they have always done…
Thanks to all the commenters on the last post that raised, in a somewhat half-assed way, the question of what -- if anything -- we should make of the gender (im)balance of the pool of bloggers on the science beat. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, I'm not sure I have enough data and insight yet to use…
but it just isn't in the nature of men and dogs to do so, is it? ;)
They at least have to go through the motions of giving a good growl.....
meow.
LOL. Ain't that the truth.