FemaleScienceProfessor

By popular demand (= 3 recent mail requests), my thoughts on co-advising, a topic I have only touched on obliquely before (as far as I can ...

Many grants come with 'indirect costs' (a.k.a. 'overhead') calculated into their budgets. I understand why grants have indir...

The recent post on " Kidlessness " elicted quite a few comments, some of which reminded me of a bit of comforting advice I got fro...

At the beginning of the fall term, I could see clear to the other side of it with no apparent break from proposal/manuscript/abstract/commit...

Recently I heard a BBC interview with Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics . I was very startled when he said th...

When I was a young professor, I had a brief but transformative experience that still affects my behavior in Faculty Meetings to this day. I...

A paper published in 2009 by some people I know contains the statement that it is problematic that a certain dataset does not exist because ...

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...

An interesting question that arrived by email involves the issue of being the very first graduate student of someone who has never before ad...

In yesterday's post, I explained why I like a flexible system of assigning teaching loads. The balance between research : teaching is an...

A visiting colleague and I recently discussed a perennial topic of obsession among some academics: how our departments/universities assign t...

Yesterday's post contains some interesting data that the author of the survey will no doubt have fun contemplating and interpreting, kee...

A high school student conducting research on women in science contacted me for assistance with a survey, the results of which will be used i...

When I was in college, one of my science professors had very extreme requirements about the organization of the homework we turned in. The p...

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...

As a result of my taking undergrad language classes for several years, I get all sorts of email targeted at students. Many of these are enti...

If you are a program officer for a major funding organization (example: NSF), here's what not to say to a young female scientist who as...

Women now comprise half the work force and have made impressive gains in some professions. An essay by Joanne Lipman in the NY Times on Sa...

At a conference earlier this year and during some talks by visitors to my department in recent weeks, I noticed something. I heard, on multi...

A professor friend of mine recently noticed something in her department: all of the tenure-track women (except her) had stopped their tenure...