FemaleScienceProfessor

From e-mail from a reader (text modified to remove possibly-identifying details): I had traveled to a conference with some colleagues, in...

Below is an e-mail message. It seems to refer to a comment (or two) that I did not see, perhaps because they got sent to the spam-box, whic...

In my seemingly never-ending quest to find the best, most user-friendly, flexible, non-annoying, and free collaborative workspace in which ...

In my November contribution to the "Catalyst" section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, I wrote about how I typically deal w...

OK, OK, yes I saw the stupid "Futures" story(?) titled Womanspace in Nature in late September, I read the comments (many of whi...

A problem and a question from a reader: This month we organized an international research conference at our University, with the organiza...

Yesterday's post in Scientopia resulted in a wide range of responses in answer to the question of whether a female professor should agr...

Whenever I write about a topic that involves the possibility of sexism -- or even an unambiguous example such as the one I described in a ...

A recent post about a colleague's postdoc who is disrespectful (in more than a casual way) to female postdocs, but not to female profes...

A colleague at another institution has a postdoc with whom I have interacted from time to time. My colleague's research interests are ve...

Someone wrote a letter of complaint to The New York Times , noting that there were typically about 8 times as many obituaries for men as for...

At various times in this blog, I have described professional events such as conference sessions, workshops, and speaker series in which ther...

A few years ago, I posed the question: What do you do if someone you know to be a long-time sexist jerk is selected for a position of respon...

A female friend who spent the first ~40 years of her life as a man has long been involved in photography, first as a hobby and later as a pr...

The purpose of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs program is "to attract Canadian and international leading scientists" in c...

The following are things that I believe to be generally un true: If an individual has never directly experienced or perpetrated sexism/discr...

Whenever I describe an anecdote -- whether from direct experience or not -- involving a possibly sexist remark by a man, the inevitable com...

So far I am only about 70 pages into the book by Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to t...

My daughter has been coming home from middle school with tales of being the target of unpleasant attention by a particular boy who boasts ab...

This is so cool. Instead of playing Gender Bias Bingo alone on my computer, however, it would be much more fun to have a bingo card and bin...