- The GNOME Women’s Outreach Program is running paid internships (for women, and not only students) from December 12, 2011 through March 12, 2012. The application deadline is October 31.
- Just 12% of CSIRO’s senior scientists women:
While at entry level almost 50 per cent of post-doctorate graduates are female [at CSIRO, Australia’s government research agency], just 12 per cent of senior specialists are women.
- Women, swearing and the workplace:
Since [Carol] Bartz’s very public departure from Yahoo last week, her penchant for blunt, profane language has become recurring themes in discussions of her career, driving conversation about what women can and can’t be in the workplace.
- (Warning: self-harm and harassment mentioned.) Naming Names on the Internet:
Three years ago… It required contributors to Web portals and other popular sites to use their real names, rather than pseudonyms… Last month, after a huge security breach, the government said it would abandon the system.
- (Warning for sexual assault and denial.) Reddit Users Find New Way To Be Assholes.
When a woman posted about her sexual assault on Reddit, she enraged doubters, who eventually convinced her to post video
proof
of the crime. - Introducing Ladydrawers:
it’s the female-identified creators who aren’t being encouraged to submit [comics] work, aren’t being sought out and aren’t getting books turned into big movie deals. In comics and elsewhere, women creators of all sorts of media are starting to ask: Why? Ladydrawers, a new semimonthly comics collaboration, will look at a few possible reasons and impacts in comics form.
- Across the digital divide:
This doesn’t change the part where, every time a discussion of ebooks turns, seemingly inevitably, to
Print is dead, traditional publishing is dead, all smart authors should be bailing to the brave new electronic frontier,
what I hear, however unintentionally, isPoor people don’t deserve to read.
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