Posts tagged ‘academia’

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

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 ...

I’m nearing the end of my PhD and starting to seek jobs, and I’ve been asked over and over again whether I’ll be staying on academia or I’ll be moving to industry. I haven’t signed ...

Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions: Turns out women and men get different types of recommendation letters. “Female candidates were described in more communal (social or emotive) terms and male candidates in more agentic ...

I’m back in school, as some folks have probably already gathered from my microblogging. I’m finishing up a double major in Computer Science and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto, and if all goes ...

The last linkspam has a comments thread about the difficulties geeky women can have exploring, explaining, attacking or changing sexist patterns in geekdom due to not having ready access to feminist or anti-oppression ideas and ...

Lyz Krumbach writes “Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?” to answer the question of whether and how women’s groups help. A great article about 5th grade girls visiting Yahoo! ...