Posts tagged ‘sexism’

Women’s security scholarships, clothing dilemmas portrayed, sexism in geek culture broadly, and more.

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: How do you react when people (generally older men) treat us (young women in tech/engineering) as show dogs? I’ve had a number of people ...

Talk on June 15 at Melbourne University: Dr Cathy Foley, 100 years later: has anything changed for women in science?: This talk will look at what is the status of women in science in Australia, ...

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 ...

Jen from epbot (and Cake Wrecks fame) has a post up about this t-shirt… As a woman with a math degree, I know a whole lot more about math than the company making the shirt, ...

Today’s xkcd comic is about Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, and Emmy Noether: “Just remember that if you want to do this stuff, you’re not alone.” Discuss. Transcript below the fold, courtesy of Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller: