Archive for October, 2010
2010.10.29 Baby and startup? Big deal! Or, perhaps, a big deal? (10)
Years back I read Paul Graham’s How to Start a Startup essay, which includes this footnote: One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, ...
Full Story »2010.10.29 Linkspam is idealized into powerlessness (29th October, 2010) (6)
San Francisco, USA: Women 2.0 PITCH Night, 4th November: Watch the finalists of the Startup Competition pitch live, learn firsthand from successful female startup founders how they grew their ideas into industry-changing businesses, and network ...
Full Story »2010.10.27 Dot Diva: The Webisode (8)
This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers. This Wednesday fun is ...
Full Story »2010.10.27 Wednesday Geek Woman: Rosalind Franklin (3)
This is a guest post by L. Minter. L. Minter is a feminist biology student and a blogger at Feminist Book Club. Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist who made significant contributions, but whose work ...
Full Story »2010.10.26 Quick hit: Men, Medicine, and Meritocracy vs Affirmative Action (21)
It was those very numbers that made me start to look at the breakdown of the applicant pool, in terms of the ratio of male to female, and the discovery of what was, I think, ...
Full Story »2010.10.25 Halloween: will you be a sexy witch, a sexy bee, or a sexy girl geek? (21)
Take Back Halloween! costume resources showed up in the linkspam recommendations. We love Halloween. We really love Halloween. We think it’s cool that there’s one day a year when people can dress up as anything ...
Full Story »2010.10.25 We’ll be post-linkspam in the post-patriarchy (26th October, 2010) (1)
Melbourne, Australia: Go Girl Go for IT 2010: A free IT careers showcase for Secondary School Girls Years 8-11, Deakin University, Burwood, 27th and 28th October. Trigger warning for violent crime against women: Russell Williams ...
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