Author: Leslie
Feministing (and XKCD) highlight women in science
Over at the widely-read feminist blog you’ll find a post highlighting a recent XKCD comic. The comic tackles the issue of using Marie Curie as a token example of a successful female scientist. View the Feministing post here and the XKCD comic here
Maximizing female intellectual contribution
Discover magazine, AAAS, and L’Oreal recently convened a panel “to explore ways to help the research community—and the nation—make the most of its female intellectual firepower”. The panel included several interesting female personalities, but the most interesting to genome scientists was Joan Steitz. Joan Steitz was James Watson’s first female …
Wikipedia desperate for female contributors
This article at the New York Times discusses the severe gender skew in Wikipedia contributing authors. Less than 15% of contributors are female. The result is not only a skew in perspective for the articles that exist, but a severe skew in which articles get created in the first place. …
Ivory ceiling of service work
Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors, recently printed this article detailing the large difference in the amount of time male and female faculty members spend on service activities. Service activities include tasks like serving on committees (search committees, seminar speaker invitation committees, curriculum revision committees, etc.), …