- Menstrual Synchrony: Do Girls Who Go Together Flow Together?: Harriet Hall reviews the evidence that women who live together synchronise menstrual cycles, and finds it unconvincing.
- This Can’t Be Real: “Slavery The Game”:
A website has sprung up for a supposed new gaming developer called Javelin Reds Gaming. Their first title is the light-hearted (sarcasm) and family-friendly (dripping sarcasm) game entitled Slavery the Game.
- In Job Market, Social Contacts Help Men – Not Women:
men who had lots of specialized work experience were often recruited into a new job through their social contacts without having to look for a job. In fact, men with this kind of experience were 12 percent more likely to find a new job through informal recruitment than they were through a formal job search… Women, however, did not see this benefit.
- Meredith interviews writer Marlene Dotterer.. Time travel writing, and being a woman writing science fiction.
- Less Depression for Working Moms Who Expect That They ‘Can’t Do It All’:
Working moms have lower rates of depression than their stay-at-home counterparts, but buying into the supermom myth could put working mothers at greater risk for depression.
- Trusting the girls in the back room: Imagining a writer’s mind as officeworkers.
- I, Singularity…: Elizabeth Bear discusses and critiques (partly from a feminist perspective) the pressure for science fiction authors to address the technological singularity/transhumanism/post-body, and the problems with having an idea of required subject matter for real science fiction at all.
- World of Warcraft Player v Player gaming: unsurprisingly some people think it’s only for teh menz.
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… but buying into the supermom myth could put working mothers at greater risk for depression.
Why the “could” in this sentence from the linked article?
When I actually read the article, the body of the article stated that it did put mothers at greater risk. But this sentence (from the beginning of the article) makes it sound like it’s just speculation, the sort of nonsense you read over and over again around hot-button topics, like “mothers who work could put their children at risk of becoming sock fetishists.”
In that case, because it was easier to lift the editor’s summary than to read the whole thing over several times and produce a pithy and correct-in-all-implications summary.
People are welcome (in fact encouraged) to add more info about the links in comments, and we’ll correct errors, add warnings etc no worries, but we don’t apply subeditor-like attention to the links, but the difference between could cause and will cause is at the level of subtlety that is past “no one will have time to compile the linkspams if that’s what you want from them.” Their editor could improve on this.
Sorry, this wasn’t a complaint about you, it was a complaint about sciencedaily.com (or whoever they cut-and-pasted that introductory sentence from.)
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Kate Clancy: a short history of ‘menotoxin’ aka the influence of bias on ‘objective’ science
d2k, is there any chance you’d be willing to sign up for one of the bookmark sites, or are already using one? Links in comments are actually the hardest to pull into the linkspams.
Also, thanks for your regular contributions. They’re very good links!
Men, Women and Spatial Intelligence
Warning for some sexism in the comments but I think this a pretty interesting post about the way we “test” these things.
What Motivates STEM Students? Depends on Their Gender
Birth control pills affect memory
(Wish women making birth control choices while at university were aware of this, if study is accurate.)
Interacting with women makes men stupid
I’m afraid this study will be used to justify sexual harassment (read down in the article) and to keep women out of traditionally-male spaces.
Jezebel: Reddit Users Find New Way To Be Assholes
“When a woman posted about her sexual assault on Reddit, she enraged doubters, who eventually convinced her to post video “proof” of the crime. Her experience says a lot about the strange — and sometimes sexist — culture of the site. “
Introducing Lady Drawers