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Weblogging

Disturbing Comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t uncover this comment thread until tonight. My ears, feet, and most other body parts should have been burning because it was several men talking about me. I don’t find it flattering. What’s disappointing is that each time we bring issues of equality for women to the fore, women’s views are […]

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Diversity

Yeah, quality

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to Ethan, via Radioactive Banana, a report on women in the sciences and engineering disciplines at universities: Forty years ago, women made up only 3 percent of America’s scientific and technical workers, but by 2003 they accounted for nearly one-fifth. In addition, women have earned more than half of the bachelor’s degrees awarded […]