Posts tagged ‘education’

Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to systemic oppression: It’s not “them” — it’s us!, ...

This is a guest post from Christine Cheng. She is a research fellow in politics at Exeter College, University of Oxford. In a previous life, she studied systems design engineering and was student government president ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What ...

This one’s from last month, but it was sent to me after my last quick hit and I couldn’t resist the urge to share another story of young folk doing ground-breaking science work: “We discovered ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Oct 17, 2009. It comes up a lot in discussions of ...

From Diagrams that changed the world (BBC News): One of the first to use the visual world to navigate numbers was Florence Nightingale. Although better known for her contributions to nursing, her greatest achievements were ...

This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers. This Wednesday fun is ...