2 month ago
gleuschk : Sciencewomen : A reckless proposal, or "Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way." - thoughts about childcare and professional travel. I wonder if my dept would reimburse for childcare?
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2 month ago
wearehugh : The gender trap | Sport | The Guardian - "[gender] is not always simple to ascertain"
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Girls=Boys in Math | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - But linear algebra was the only thing that ever made me feel like a man
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nelson : Albanian sworn virgin - Interesting old European custom of women becoming virtual men
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17 month ago
Linkorama : We found women in tech... - ...so why are you still not reporting about them?
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20 month ago
Jason Kottke : Gender diversity at web conferences - Every few months, the blogosphere addresses the matter of gender diversity of speakers at conferences about design, technology, and the web. The latest such incidents revolved around the lack of women speakers at the the Future of Web Apps conference in S
Linkorama : Gender diversity at web conferences - same old same old white men thing
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20 month ago
cameron : Skymall visualizations - Take all of the faces out of a magazine (especially a boring one on a boring trip), and presto! Instant visualization. via kottke.
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21 month ago
cameron : BBC - Sex ID - Simple system that takes many psychological tests and produces a score along the male/female continuum. Apparently, I am a girl.
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24 month ago
jkottke : A list of women speakers for your conference - There has been a recent rash of technology and creative conferences whose speakers are mostly white males. The lack of diversity caused Jen Bekman to compile a list of women speakers for your conference. If you've got a technology or creative arts confere
cameron : List of Women Speakers for Your Conference - Jen Bekman has done some constructive work in addressing the white-male conference problem
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25 month ago
Linkorama : The Future of White Boy clubs - Ah, actually doing something
43folders : The Future of White Boy clubs - Would love to see some stats on non-"white boy" hiring and retention; conferences reflect who _works_ in a field, right? Don't just shoot the canary.
Paul Hammond : The Future of White Boy clubs at FactoryCity - It won’t be easy, but dammit, nothing worthwhile ever is.
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Suw Charman on how to speak at and organise conferences - This is a good solid piece that I don't think would necessarily please a lot of the people who think about these things. The gender thing is a particular community flashpoint.
Paul Hammond : The Twelve (or so) Step Program for Conference Speakers and Organisers. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. - You have a responsibility to pull your fingers out of your collective ass and start trying harder.
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31 month ago
jkottke : Norah Vincent disguised herself as a man for 18 months to see how the other half lived - Norah Vincent disguised herself as a man for 18 months to see how the other half lived (and write a book about it).
plasticbag : "Norah Vincent spent 18 months disguised as a man. She relives the boys nights out, the bad dates - and what happened when she ended up in bed with another woman" - Watching straight men and women from a distance is always valuable, and reminds us that no matter how unbalanced the power relationship, men are just as trapped in their roles as women. Maybe moreso.
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33 month ago
kellan : Stan Goff: Sex and War - Now available for pre-order on Amazon #
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia has an article on the "Two-Spirit" identity that Native Americans with unconventional sexual or gender identities have claimed for their own... - "Two-Spirit is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not most, Native American and Canadian First Nations tribes. It usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body. It is a
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Web 2.0 is Made of White People - Price discrimination is part of the issue
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Last year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 'regendered' - I was trying to find something with a lot of names in it, and this kind of seemed a perfect (if controversial) choice. Whatever my disagreements with people about the reasons for the lack of women at ETech, I'll agree with them that it's far from ideal...
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37 month ago
plasticbag : BBC News: "A US psychologist says there are not that many differences between the genders." - The complexities of the politics of same vs different, superior vs inferior, made vs born (etc) remain a perpetual focus for debate, argument and rhetoric...
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38 month ago
kellan : women@apache.org - Glad to see this practice catching on among open source communities. Its a best practice for any large organization that does net based organizing. #
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38 month ago
plasticbag : "Newsreader Michael Buerk has said "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women" who "decide what we see and hear"." - "All [men] are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy."
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40 month ago
plasticbag : War of the fire ants - the extraordinary reproductive habits where "Males pit their genes against females by chucking DNA out of eggs." - "The result is that both the males and females have their own, independent gene pools, leading some to speculate whether each gender ought to be technically classified as its own species. "
jkottke : Male anf female fire ants maintain their own independent gene pools - "The sperm of the male ant appears to be able to destroy the female DNA within a fertilized egg, giving birth to a male that is a clone of its father. Meanwhile the female queens make clones of themselves to carry on the royal female line."
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41 month ago
plasticbag : The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl - An awesome piece of investigation into the figure of the mermaid, the siren and representations of female sexuality centred around the Starbucks logo
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42 month ago
plasticbag : The BlogHer conference is an overdue gathering on women and weblogging. The UK could do with a weblogging event of some kind, as could the gay community... - I'm a little tense that some of the comments are characterising the event as an opposition to an apparent male hegemony, which I think is over-simplistic. Still, can't have everything...
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plasticbag : Cat and Girl on "Sissy" - "Sissy is a pejorative term for boys who appear effeminate - typical for a society that considers the separation of male and female identified characteristics more important than the separation of church and state..."
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49 month ago
cameron : Jeffrey Veen: What do these pictures have in common?
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51 month ago
deusx : Something in the way she moves - "Author on women's issues takes a look at chess and the position of the queen"
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