BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Both Tara Hunt and The Head Lemur have written on the Office 2.0 conference and the fact that of the 53 speakers, only one is a woman. Exactly one. This isn’t a conference on esoteric technology where the participants rush out and say, ‘There are no women who do X’, whatever ‘X’ is. This is a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two excellent from Sour Duck: 21st Century Employment: For Many it’s all work, no benefits which is disturbingly true. Links to stories related to August 26, Women’s Equality Day. I don’t, and won’t, celebrate any holiday which promotes the belief that women are ‘equal’. The day celebrates women getting the vote in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ethan sent me a link to Smart Bitches who Love Trashy Novels who writes about an article that I just now noticed is making all the rounds of the feminist weblogs. And then some. The article is in Forbes and the premise was that men shouldn’t marry career women (sorry, ‘career’ girls). Why? Because we’ll […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From Science + Professor + Woman = me, in explanation of her hesitancy in visiting her old graduate school: Another reason I avoid that place has to do with feelings of discomfort about a situation in which I played an unknowing but counterproductive role. After I had moved on to a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. PepsiCo names Indra Nooyi as CEO. She comes with a very impressive record, and one can see why she floated to the top of this company. I guess I’ll have to do my Mentos rocket with diet Pepsi now, instead of diet Coke. Thanks to Karen Walrond for the link, as well as her own […]