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April 25, 2007
UPDATE: There was a veritable blogswarm on this issue, and Shelley reports that it seems to have generated results. Although, I will note that "granting permission" is not quite the same thing as acknowledging that her original post fell under fair use.
Shelley Batts at Retrospectacle wrote a…
April 24, 2007
I have never been a huge fan of the comic strip "Cathy". In the comic strip office world, I had Dilbert on one hand, as exemplar for engineers, and Cathy on the other hand, as the model for professional working women. Neither was particularly appealing to me. Dilbert personifies all the negative…
April 23, 2007
I recently finished reading Intuition, by Allegra Goodman. It's a great novel, and anyone who's done time as a postdoc will appreciate it, especially if you've done time as postdoc in biomedical research. You may find yourself reading it and thinking that surely Goodman must have been spying upon…
April 23, 2007
The Spring 2007 issue of SWE Magazine has an article on the newest inductees into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Among them is Eleanor Baum, the fifth SWE member to be so honored. The others are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Beatrice Hicks, Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, and Sheila Widnall. Baum is…
April 23, 2007
Hello again, everybody. I've not exactly been blogging up a storm lately, have I? Well, I am feeling better this week so I'm hoping to get back to a more regular blogging schedule - in between sneezes and sniffles from spring allergies. It's absolutely gorgeous here today and I can practically…
April 13, 2007
Karmen at Chaotic Utopia has honored/saddled me with the Thinking Blogger Award/meme.
I rarely ever participate in memes. But since this one is disguised as a compliment I'll make an exception. Since this comes from Karmen, I do take it as a compliment - thank you, Karmen! It was nice to…
April 6, 2007
This is the third of several discussion posts for Week 3 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 in the Category section.
This post deals with the readings by Subramaniam and by Margolis, Fisher,…
April 6, 2007
This is the second of several discussion posts for Week 3 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 in the Category section.
This post deals with the readings by Margolis, Fisher, & Miller (MFM),…
April 6, 2007
Bora at A Blog Around the Clock alerted me to an article in Science Daily titled Power And Sexual Harassment -- Men And Women See Things Differently.
Issues of power, workplace culture and the interpretation of verbal and non-verbal communication associated with sexual harassment were the focus…
April 6, 2007
This is the first of several discussion posts for Week 3 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 in the Category section.
This post deals with the readings by Margolis, Fisher, & Miller (MFM),…
April 4, 2007
Welcome to Week 3 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 readings or couldn't get access to the books, I hope this post will give you a good flavor of what…
April 2, 2007
Mosey on over to Lab Cat's place and check out the third Scientiae. As is becoming the standard, lots of good stuff.
April 2, 2007
Well, just when I think I might be getting the migraines under control, I go and lose a whole week due to some mystery illness. It wasn't a cold and it wasn't the flu, but it sure did nail me to the floor for a week. I'm just getting back on schedule in my life. I'll try to get the Joy of…
March 23, 2007
X-Gal Meg Murray hasn't completely leaked out of the pipeline yet. She's taken a lectureship instead of a tenure-track position, and she writes this in a column titled Too Few Choices:
Defining success is a tricky thing. Would I consider myself successful if I had moved my family across the…
March 22, 2007
This post has gotten so long I'm going to have to break it into pieces. Here's the first installment.
You've read a million stories about the leaky pipeline. They all start out more or less like this:
It is no secret that women are under-represented at every level of the science and…
March 21, 2007
I've been planning to write a post about leaks in the pipeline - specifically, what it's like to be a leak in the pipeline. I've been thinking about this post in my head for a long time, and have even talked about it with a few people via email and face-to-face, but I'm finding it extraordinarily…
March 21, 2007
So, a million years ago, before my blogging break, I had begun the Joy of Science class. I never did post my third discussion entry for the second week of class...I think it is a lost cause at this point. We'll just skip over that and move on to the third week of class. Why don't we say something…
March 20, 2007
Jane Curry was at the Penn State - Abington campus today to perform her one-woman play, "Just Say Know" as one of the Women's History Month events on the campus. A word about Jane: her website describes her as "an author, storyteller, performer, and recovering academic". She is indeed all of…
March 20, 2007
It's been so long since I blogged, I almost forgot how to log in. I am going to ease myself back into some sort of blogging routine this week and hope that the computer time does not bring on the migraines again. So much has happened while I've been gone. Have any of you been following the…
March 15, 2007
I don't know if you've missed me, but I've missed blogging these last two weeks. However, my body has demanded a period of healing and I have acquiesced. The neck and shoulder are screaming less these days, and tomorrow I get my next botox treatment for the migraines, so I'm thinking by next week…
March 2, 2007
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 calls for the second carnival are already posted. Propter Doc of Post Doc Ergo…
March 2, 2007
This is the second of three discussion posts for Week 2 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 the Category section.
This post deals with the reading by Fox.
What do women need to succeed…
March 2, 2007
This is the first of three discussion posts for Week 2 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 the Category section.
This post deals with the readings by Rayman & Stewart, Bix, and…
February 28, 2007
I've had a lot of down time lately because of health issues. Migraines, of course, but also now chronic neck/shoulder pain caused by the migraines. I've been working on the discussion entries and I will have them up soon, but I don't know when. I can't spend a lot of time on the computer at one…
February 27, 2007
Welcome to the Week 2 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 readings or couldn't get access to the books, I hope this post will give you a good flavor of…
February 26, 2007
Fairer Science has also done some research and compiled lists of suggesitons on how engineering faculty can change classrooms, and how engineering classrooms can be made more effective for women (and men) students. See here for all the nifty information.
February 26, 2007
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:
...the session convinced me it was time to add a new section to FairerScience: "Presentation Tools." We've started…
February 26, 2007
I know I promised you all that tomorrow, Tuesday the 27th would be the second day of the Joy of Science class - and I may still get the reading summaries posted by tomorrow. But there will be a bit of a delay in getting the discussion posts up. I've just been out of commission too much in the…
February 26, 2007
So, you've probably heard about this by now: the sorority at DePauw University where 23 members were asked to vacate the house because they weren't "sufficiently dedicated to recruitment". It just so happens that the cadre of insufficiently dedicated members included all the sorority's black,…
February 26, 2007
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 being a woman in STEM
exploring…