Linkspam shattered on impact (19th September, 2011)
- The GNOME Women’s Outreach Program is running paid internships (for women, and not only students) from December 12, 2011 through March 12, 2012. The application deadline is October 31.
- Just 12% of CSIRO’s senior scientists women:
While at entry level almost 50 per cent of post-doctorate graduates are female [at CSIRO, Australia's government research agency], just 12 per cent of senior specialists are women.
- Women, swearing and the workplace:
Since [Carol] Bartz’s very public departure from Yahoo last week, her penchant for blunt, profane language has become recurring themes in discussions of her career, driving conversation about what women can and can’t be in the workplace.
- (Warning: self-harm and harassment mentioned.) Naming Names on the Internet:
Three years ago… It required contributors to Web portals and other popular sites to use their real names, rather than pseudonyms… Last month, after a huge security breach, the government said it would abandon the system.
- (Warning for sexual assault and denial.) 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. - Introducing Ladydrawers:
it’s the female-identified creators who aren’t being encouraged to submit [comics] work, aren’t being sought out and aren’t getting books turned into big movie deals. In comics and elsewhere, women creators of all sorts of media are starting to ask: Why? Ladydrawers, a new semimonthly comics collaboration, will look at a few possible reasons and impacts in comics form.
- Across the digital divide:
This doesn’t change the part where, every time a discussion of ebooks turns, seemingly inevitably, to
Print is dead, traditional publishing is dead, all smart authors should be bailing to the brave new electronic frontier,
what I hear, however unintentionally, isPoor people don’t deserve to read.
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Thanks to everyone who suggested links.
Kaonashi:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:34 am
Reddit has its fair share of sexist assholes, to be sure. But I have to say I’ve seen a good number of sensible comments and had positive discussions there too. I wouldn’t go there if I was easily triggered, because someone will invariably troll you, be a smart-ass internet cynic or have slimed their way over from /r/mensrights.
oldfeminist:
September 21st, 2011 at 8:23 am
Annoyance warning: the commentariat on the swearing article contains gems like “why can’t women be soft and feminine any more?” and of course make me a sandwich.
d2k:
September 21st, 2011 at 1:05 pm
HBS Working Knoweldge: Gender and Competition
> McGinn says their results suggest that gender effects around competition are contextual and that the results depend on the sorts of tasks men and women are asked to complete and the gender of those with whom they are interacting.
> “There’s a strongly held assumption that men are competitive and women aren’t, and our results show otherwise,” she says. “Men and women work together differently when they’re dependent [on each other] versus independent and when they work on stereotypically male or female tasks.”
d2k:
September 21st, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know
d2k:
September 22nd, 2011 at 11:42 am
Explaining Gender Inequalities in Salary Expectations
d2k:
September 23rd, 2011 at 8:33 am
Nurture affects gender differences in spatial abilities
“Women remain significantly underrepresented in the science, engineering, and technology workforce. Some have argued that spatial ability differences, which represent the most persistent gender differences in the cognitive literature, are partly responsible for this gap…In this study, we use a large-scale incentivized experiment with nearly 1,300 participants to show that the gender gap in spatial abilities, measured by time to solve a puzzle, disappears when we move from a patrilineal society to an adjoining matrilineal society.”
d2k:
September 25th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Celebrating Female Science Bloggers
dated but good
Lindsey Kuper:
September 28th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
The This is what a computer scientist looks like photo pool has continued to grow and is up to 79 photos. Someone recently added a series of amazing diptych portraits of computer scientists from Google NYC. A bit of searching on the photographers’ names turned up this blog post. Both the pool and the post might benefit from a signal boost.
Selene:
October 2nd, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe on Bloomberg!
Interview on Bloomberg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FReTsxVSYZE
Article in Businessweek:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/a-campus-champion-for-women-in-computer-science-09222011.html
She’s awesome. Sadly, she started her term the year after I graduated so I only got to interact with her when I came back for reunion.