Death before linkspam (3rd April, 2011)
- Google Summer of Code applications are open, closing this week (Friday April 8). Check our project advertisements and application tips.
- Google Announces HITB2011AMS Conference Grant for Women Hackers:
This grant is set up to enable more female computer scientists to attend and participate in HITB2011AMS. The grant includes a pass to the conference on 19th and 20th of May (accommodation not included) & travel expenses up to EUR500!
- Liz Henry writes Dealing with Internet Drama in Feminist Discourse – SXSWi panel report
- Gains, and Drawbacks, for Female Professors:
When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged 12 years ago that it had discriminated against female professors in
subtle but pervasive
ways, it became a national model for addressing gender inequity… Now, an evaluation of those efforts shows substantial progress — and unintended consequences. - Strange Horizons wants more female reviewers:
If you are a woman who reviews or blogs about genre fiction, I’d like to invite you to review for Strange Horizsons.
- Selena Deckelmann on Where meritocracy fails:
At the same time, the operation of the project is dominated by people who fit into a very specific profile. And that’s something like: the top 1% of the world in terms of salary, are male… I count myself among you, with the exception that I’m not male, and I don’t have kids.
- The Mystery of the Missing Female Bloggers: Yes again. The specific field is academic economics this time.
- Want To Get Ahead? Stay Away From Women:
Because where there are women there are lower salaries… women and men get paid similar amounts for similar work but that women pick lower-paying fields, and lower paying paths.
(Note: the author largely assumes this is static, and does not consider that the presence of women might make the work become less valued, for example.)
You can suggest links for future linkspams in comments here, or by using the geekfeminism tag on delicious or the #geekfeminism tag on Twitter. Please note that we tend to stick to publishing recent links (from the last month or so).
Thanks to everyone who suggested links.
skg:
April 3rd, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Vivek Wadhwa, “Women of Color in Tech: How Can We Encourage Them?“
d2k:
April 3rd, 2011 at 8:20 pm
gendered slurs at google
Tony Mechelynck:
April 4th, 2011 at 12:23 am
How can that guy (the author of the last-mentioned post) never even imagine that jobs which become majoritarily female see their salary level drop? «Neurosurgeons are men, family doctors are women.» Puh-lease! Even I knew a time when all doctors, even family doctors and pediatricians, were men — at that time, women in health care weren’t doctors, they were nurses! And, what do you think? Compared to the average population, family doctors were much more well-to-do then than they are now.
Mary:
April 4th, 2011 at 12:55 am
The last link is by a woman, Penelope Trunk. (In case this is a second language error: you can in some circumstances use “guys” to refer to a mixed-gender group in English or even sometimes an all-women group, but “guy” singular will be taken to refer to a man.)
On the subject of your comment: yes, it does seem very odd to me to treat this like a static ahistoric fact rather than a process.
d2kd3k:
April 4th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
“Hanna” Director Joe Wright Slams “Sucker Punch’s” Girl Power, Spice Girls: ‘That’s Marketing Bullshit’
Tony Mechelynck:
April 4th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Oops, sorry, me too I didn’t check all my facts: I read the article but skipped the byline and photo, did not notice that the author was a woman, and committed the fallacy of not imagining that anyone but a sexist, well, man could say that “the reason women are underpaid is that they steer away from well-paid jobs” (or words to that effect). My bad.
Tony Mechelynck:
April 4th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
P.S. On rereading the article, I now think that Al Lee (quoted in the first paragraph) was the sexist man in question, who meant what he said; about Penelope Trunk, I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt: does she believe that it’s the fault of women if they’re underpaid, or was she writing it all as a kind of tongue-in-cheek humor? I don’t know anymore.