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Posts tagged ‘stereotyping’

2010.10.20   Things I don’t have to linkspam about today (20th October, 2010)   (9)

Say hello to Ms Spam-Spam! We’ve put in a special account for linkspams to make it more clear that linkspams are a group effort here. All the old linkspams are now listed with this account ...

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2010.10.12   Quick hit: Women = Men when it comes to math skills   (2)

Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills, Large Study Shows These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college and beyond. A second portion of ...

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2010.10.04   Women did not evolve against risk-taking and tech startups.   (5)

This is cross-posted at Restructure! There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are “nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature”, an idea often proposed and upvoted in Hacker ...

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2010.09.27   How to Appear Incompetent in One Easy Step   (7)

Amber is a Capital Markets Technology consultant who currently works on Wall Street making trading platforms suck less. If she’s not online kicking ass in PvP, you can probably find her somewhere on the Lower ...

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2010.09.22   half hearted ethnicity in toys: japan barbie + ken   (4)

This post was originally published at 天高皇企鹅远. There are some new Barbies doing the rounds, and they’re amazing: I don’t even know what’s going on here. This toy website tells says that Japan Ken wears ...

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2010.09.21   The spammers, united, will never be defeated   (3)

The Haecksen women’s miniconference at linux.conf.au (Brisbane, January 2011) is calling for submissions, closing very shortly on September 24. Abbie Heppe gave a critical review of Metroid: Other M, and the backlash was immense and ...

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2010.09.15   G33k & G4M3R Girls: You’re doing it wrong.   (39)

Metaneira is a 30 year old female currently in school for a master’s in public administration focusing on the non-profit sector. Meta has been gaming since she could hold a joystick, and has been blogging ...

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