Blinkered sexism or 20yo 10:1 girl sci/eng dislike still showing

SteveNordq157 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:37:34 -0500

Maybe She's Such a Geek is an angished NSF nominator, but it usually takes a few years to go through college and publish 20-50 of the most important papers in your field, and there isn't a blinkered bias of girls to come from enlightened neighborhoods into science.... Okay, there is, but prevails as immigrants in the USA. What are most blinkered about biases in that, anyway?

It might be some relief on the current nominees (say, if we wanted to see a spike of gal winners (before transhumanism comes around and -everyone- springs full-grown from their dad's underarm like Athena)(simplifying step 1!)) if there were less vacuum on the Technical CEO/COO/Board side of their attentions as far as like women. Sometimes after all, it takes 3 successful spinoffs and 12 starts to make a method work. Hopefully the right web service stuff can help accelerate a working meritocracy into place, and well before broad cross-sections of america contain near-gender-parity in 40-90yo scientist/engineer investors or whatever Board Material becomes.

So coincidentally yes; something absolutely can substitute for calling out the NSF for sexism. Mobility, kid-accessible online science journals, the other bits NSF research into Medal EEOCness has found need work, and much much better overloading of the term 'lab work' in language.

New site for professional women and National Medal of Science ignores women

Virginia DeBolt — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:23:04 -0500

The two topics I want to mention today are not particularly related. Both are items that I think need to be brought to your attention. You can related them in your own way and tell us about it in the comments.

First, there's a new professional women's forum, called Damsels in Success. In spite of the cutesy name, the group has serious intentions. The forum is a group blog. There is a provision for women to share stories, and seek advice.

The part of the site that particularly interested me was the Job Bank. I've had good luck with job banks in the past, particularly at the Society for Technical Communicators and at the Writer's League of Texas back in the days when it was called the Austin Writers League. Employers who support the advancement of women as well as job seekers can register and use the job board.

Secondly, She's Such a Geek posted today that

For the third year in a row, the National Medal of Science recipients were all men, according to a release from the Society for Womenâ€™s Health Research. Out of 97 winners over the past ten years, only ten have been women, the Society notes.

The Society is sponsoring the RAISE project, aimed at making sure qualified women are nominated for awards in science, medicine and engineering. The Society also offers its own award for women who make advancements in womenâ€™s health research.

But nothing else can substitute for calling out the National Science Foundation for its blinkered sexism.

These awards are for 2005, just now announced in 2007. The National Science Foundation has a searchable database of recipients of the award which can be searched by gender, among other parameters. I count eleven (not ten) women in the ten years from 1995 to 2005, still a dismal number.

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Blinkered sexism or 20yo 10:1 girl sci/eng dislike still showing

New site for professional women and National Medal of Science ignores women