Posts tagged ‘girls’

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 ...