Recently we came across an article by Sandra Tsing Loh in the Atlantic on the age-long debate about whether it’s good/bad for mothers to stay at home/work. While people love to argue about that particular topic, we’ll pass that up for the moment to focus on an initially shocking (to us) number mentioned in the [...]
Recently we were looking through the awards that are given out each year at the major annual scientific conference in our field. Almost none of them were given to women in the past few years - except for the special prize that must be given to a woman. It made us wonder how widespread this [...]
It’s that time of year again: the time when our ambivalence about Black History Month comes into full view. Yes, we agree that black Americans need more of their histories to be told. But we worry that this special month gives Americans another excuse to ignore black people for the rest of the year. And [...]
We’ve been interested to read the discussion about women and science blogging that started after The Scientist asked readers to suggest their favorite life science blogs last September - and none of the blogs reviewed were written by women. Last week, Ivan Oransky followed up on this in a blog post at The Scientist. [...]
If you’re a women in science, you probably have times when you become very sick of thinking, reading, hearing, or talking about anything specifically related to women in science. You cry to yourself, “When, when, when will it end?”, while wailing and gnashing your teeth. Well, we can’t tell you when it will end. But we [...]