Yesterday’s post about perceptions of women in the workplace got us thinking about moments when we have not been recognized as the famous Dr. Medusa. One such moment happened earlier this fall, near the start of the semester. We happened to be in the department office with a male graduate student who works with us. [...]
In today’s New York Times there is an intriguing article by Lisa Belkin about how women are perceived at work. Belkin focuses on perceptions of women and gender stereotypes. The sad summary is that women look bad no matter what. One recent study run by Catalyst (an organization that supports expanded opportunities for women in business) [...]
We were pleased to see in today’s New York Times (registration required) that James Watson has been fired from his directorship of Cold Spring Harbor lab. Well, technically, he “retired”. But he is quoted in the article as saying that the circumstances of his resignation “are not those which I could ever have anticipated [...]
The Female Science Professor blog is written by a full professor in an unspecified physical science at a US research university. She blogs regularly about her life and work in academia. A series of recent posts caught our attention, because they’re a great example of day-to-day sexism that affects women academics. They describe the exploits [...]
Implicit Association Tests are an interesting and sometimes controversial form of psychology experiment designed to measure unconscious associations. As described in Shankar Vedantam’s article on IATs in the Washington Post, The Implicit Association Test is designed to examine which words and concepts are strongly paired in people’s minds. For example, “lightning” is associated with “thunder,” rather [...]