Posts tagged ‘gender essentialism’

Win a Scholarship to National Computer Camp: GamingAngels.com and National Computer Camp (NCC) are offering a scholarship for NCC’s June/July 2011 enrollment valued at $985 to a female student (ages 8-18) for one week.
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Ada Lovelace Day, the once a year blogswarm highlighting women in technology will be held on October 7 (unlike the previous two years when it was held in March). More keynoters in the open source ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Some of us are professional scientists, or are studying to become professional scientists (me), or like to read about science as a hobby, yes? ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Most male geeks believe that they are subverting traditional masculinity by reclaiming and self-identifying with the term “geek”. For most male geeks, geek identity is defined partly as ...

Open World Forum 2010 (Sep 30 to Oct 1, Paris) is having a Diversity Summit: Why women matter? relating to women in Free/Open Source Software. There’s an associated poll to gather data about women in ...

Showing up on our Linkspam radar this week is John Tierney’s article for The New York Times, Daring to Discuss Women in Science, which is another round of “I am going to challenge the groupthink ...

Spoiler warning: the last part of this spam spoils a scene in a very recent Doctor Who. There thus might be spoilers in our comments too. Two-wheel triumph: Armed with a netbook, medical supplies and ...

Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...

Unless you’ve been inexplicably failing to click on every link in our linkspams (you didn’t know that would be on the exam?… sorry), you read a fair bit of Sociological Images already. However, they get ...

Technology for “keeping kids safe” unsurprisingly sometimes serves a dual purpose, as Lauredhel points out: Your kids’ ’secure’ online chats being sold to marketers Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Claims of sex differences fall apart. Newsweek ...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Where are all the men bloggers? thread, and a big “Welcome” to those who are new here. I’ve just shut down comments on that thread because a) the ...