- Work-Life Hits the Front Page of the NYTimes Sunday Business Section-Why It Matters | work+life fit, inc.: “The placement [of the article] and the [accompanying] picture represent noteworthy and important symbolic shifts for the work-life debate.”
- The Trouble with Barbie Science | Scientific American: ”Recent psychological research suggests that girlifying science may not be the best way to get girls thinking about careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (also called “STEM”). And, thankfully, the research also offers specific suggestions for what might work better.”
- Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (Hint: Sexism) | The Atlantic: “Typing was women’s work and these business people, born in the 1930s and 1940s, didn’t scrap their way up the bureaucracy to be relegated to the very secretarial work they’d been devaluing all along.”
- I am not a Puzzle Box: Absolutely brilliant post on “creepiness”, pick up artistry, rape culture, and women as puzzle box
- Things You Should Know About the Fallout | glvalentine: “for those thinking of going public with their own experiences with con harassment, I want to talk about how it looks nearly two months on. Because it’s still going, two months on.”
- The Omniscient Breasts by Kate Elliot | SF Signal: “So here it is: Stories told through a female gaze are just as valid, just as true, just as authentic and universal. And they are just as necessary, not just for women but for men, too.”
- [Linkspam] Across the Divide | the border house: Video gaming themed linkspam
- Baby Korra – YouTube: SO CUTE!
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WitsOn, an online mentorship event/program, has been getting some attention with their recent press release and a New York Times article . College students can sign up to participate at https://piazza.com/witson.
As a Harvey Mudd alumnus I was contacted to participate as a mentor, and if anyone here is interested I can pass your info along.
re: Barbie Feminism
Ugh, thank you! I have never understood why they think pinkifying science will make it appeal to girls. What got me into math was not the prospect of being some kind of, I dunno, hot Bond girl scientist, or being able to measure pretty shiny diamonds. It was just math itself being really freaking amazing, which I got from great professors and serious courses, not from some kind of veneer of coolness they’d pasted on. It didn’t need it. Having female role models in my department helped a bunch, but again, it wasn’t that they were modeling how to be feminine and pretty and sparkly and how math could lead you to that, just that they were women and they were mathematicians both at once, and they were just really great people, both on a personal level and a scientific one.