Atop the Turbine: A Fine View of Community College
As we start to see more daily reminders of the critical importance of junior and community colleges in American job creation and equity –as the recession slogs on without promised new jobs, as the...
View ArticleErring on the Side of…Exclusion
Thank you, John Tierney! Through your efforts, essentialist thinking about gender and intelligence may keep its hold on Americans for a while longer. Tierney suggests in today’s NY Times “Findings”...
View ArticleOn Being Retro
From "H.R. Pufnstuf," Gold Key Comics, April 1971 A page from a kids’ comic book, 1971…a single, marvelous page illustrated in a way that brings home the gendered nature of American work in that era....
View ArticleNice Work If You Can Get It
Interesting: A paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Cornell researchers Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams has gained a great deal of media attention,...
View ArticleWith Friends Like This…
An opinion column by Caitlin Flanagan in the NYTimes today, entitled “Hysteria and the Teenage Girl,” maps out for us why it is that girls experience “hysterical reactions” to stress more often than do...
View ArticleSTEM Equity: In Search of Trend Setters
Close your eyes and imagine a biology department or engineering school where every single one of the following policy changes has been implemented: ….universities might educate women graduate students...
View ArticleBeware the Algorithm: STEM Recruitment Meets Big Data
Big Data, it seems, is suddenly very big. Among the social scientists with whom I spend time, newly massive, deep-tissue-massaged bodies of data have found currency. As a research tool, the emergent...
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