Posts tagged ‘girls’

I always thought my friend Sarah summed up the appeal of My Little Pony the best: Once you believe in rainbow-coloured ponies who can talk, there isn’t much limit to your imagination.

Angela Zhang of Cupertino won a $100,000 scholarship for her cancer fighting research. In her project, Zhang aimed to design a targeted gold and iron oxide-based nanoparticle with the potential to eradicate cancer stem cells ...

I always thought my friend Sarah summed up the appeal of My Little Pony the best: Once you believe in rainbow-coloured ponies who can talk, there isn’t much limit to your imagination.

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

Trigger warning Assange’s Account Looks Like Accusers’ Account: Assange’s own attorney now effectively concedes that was, at best, what happened here: His victims gave subsequent consent to sexual activity for which explicit consent was neither ...

Here’s some talented young women in science showing off their lego trophies: Our judges said the unifying elements of all three young women were their intellectual curiosity, their tenaciousness and their ambition to use science ...

Smurfs intruded by vinylmeister. This has been a great year for male writers, with women shunted aside for major prizes and all-new hand-wringing about why it is so. Because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, ...

Color Lines gives us The Ultimate 21st Century People of Color Sci-Fi List It seems that when it comes to sci-fi, cultural experiences of the melanin-inclined are merely reserved for exotic backdrop (ahem, “Stargate”) and ...

I found this quite interesting: A new, not-yet-published study that tracked 12 years of wage data in Denmark finds that when male CEOs had daughters, their female employees’ wages went up 1.3 percent while their ...

Having been part of a field naturalist club when I was in public school, I really love stories of amateur scientists with big impacts: Ten-year-old Kathryn Gray had lots of fun over the winter holidays. ...

You may have heard the story already: First grader Katie was bullied over her star wars water bottle. The boys claimed that star was was for boys. The story was picked up by epbot and ...

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 ...

Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at From Austin to A&M. My ...

The Ubuntu Women team ran a competition a few months ago to gather stories documenting how women adopted the Ubuntu distribution as their computer operating system of choice. Based on the success of that competition, they ...

Felicia Day is not pleased with Vanity Fair‘s condescending portrayal of herself and other female social media entrepreneurs. Role Models and Stereotypes: discussing the comparative helpfulness in attracting women to a field of both questioning ...

Language Log explores gender bias in the order of English binomial expressions through statistical analysis of four text corpus sources Ceci n’est pas une excuse: Mel looks at privilege as a game with unfair weightings, ...