FemaleScienceProfessor

More random thoughts on Un/Professional Attire I used to think that my husband could wear whatever he wanted to conferences year after year,...

A few months ago, my elementary-school aged daughter asked: "What's it called when someone says that girls can't do something, ...

Despite my apparent obsession with the topic of women-in-science, I really don't have to work hard at all to find examples of ways in wh...

Too bad NYT columnist John Tierney doesn't have a fact-checker for his essays. If he did, he might have avoided publishing such a deeply...

Someone should come up with a Geneva Conventions-type document for faculty. Somewhere in there should be a mention that faculty meetings, in...

It's taking me a while to read through the whole report recently released by the NAS on the lack of women scientists and engineers, but...

Sometimes when I read an article about Academia, even a corner of Academia that I supposedly know a bit about, it is not uncommon for the ar...

This morning, my husband showed me an article in which a political contest between 2 women was described as a "catfight". I think ...

The issue of Awards (prestigious grants, honors etc.) just won't go away. I recently finished my term on one awards committee, but have ...

Thanks to Maxine for reminding me about the letters to Nature (Aug. 24) re. the Barres' commentary. The statistics on the number of wome...

From an email from my conference-attending husband, in Europe: "You would hate this conference. Lots of senior men dominating the meeti...

In recent weeks I've been on a committee that selects a recipient for one of the highest awards in a field related to my own, and it...

I guess I will find out soon because I did rant to an administrator (via email) today and he replied that we should chat more about my Issue...

Working at home just doesn't work for me -- it never has. I need to be in my office, surrounded by all my office stuff, without the home...

A recent op-ed essay in the NYT about the end of summer noted that most academics work a lot more than 40 hours a week, though we have somew...

The official departmental speaker list was posted today. Twelve weeks of male speakers, no women speakers. It is possible that a woman will ...

Over the summer, I've done a lot of the kind of teaching that involves working individually with undergraduates and grad students on res...

I have attended or participated in quite a few Ph.D. thesis defenses over the past few weeks, and in every case, the graduating Ph.D. studen...

In just the past week or so, there have been front page articles in the New York Times about the general lack of women ministers of large ch...

My daughter and I went back-to-school shopping today. We are both very fond of acquiring school supplies, and less fond of shopping for clot...