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newscience commented on Government Officials: Should Title IX Apply To Science Departments?

"@rmric0: I would love to see girls and women portrayed in sitcoms and movies as scientists, without drawing extra attention to their jobs as such."

http://jezebel.com/5025283/#c6695741 2:47 PM on Jul 15

newscience commented on Government Officials: Should Title IX Apply To Science Departments?

"@snarkhunting: One of my male buddies in the department is always joking about how I give him third-degree burns from my feminist righteous indignation (almost never directed at him, but sometimes)."

http://jezebel.com/5025283/#c6691210 1:00 PM on Jul 15

newscience commented on Government Officials: Should Title IX Apply To Science Departments?

"@oboesqueaks: Thanks for the kind words!"

http://jezebel.com/5025283/#c6689610 12:19 PM on Jul 15

newscience commented on Government Officials: Should Title IX Apply To Science Departments?

"@screwtapeletters: Wow, gosh, I'm glad that there's a study that found that women with physics doctorates go on in equal proportions to professorships, etc."

http://jezebel.com/5025283/#c6686655 11:06 AM on Jul 15

newscience commented on Government Officials: Should Title IX Apply To Science Departments?

"@subrosa: I switched to astrophysics from the humanities as an undergrad, and it was astonishing to me that no one had ever told me how different they are in terms of payoff."

http://jezebel.com/5025283/#c6686210 10:53 AM on Jul 15

newscience commented on Government Officials: Should Title IX Apply To Science Departments?

"@oboesqueaks: I think it's important to recognize that women drop out of the science pipeline at every point- there are proportionally less female postdocs then graduate students, less graduate students than undergrads."

http://jezebel.com/5025283/#c6685890 10:41 AM on Jul 15

newscience commented on Women's Magazines Save Woman's Life

"@shananigans: Oh my god, the embarassing moment stories."

http://jezebel.com/5023840/#c6614913 4:14 PM on Jul 10

newscience commented on Women's Magazines Save Woman's Life

"I think I've just always been ahead of the curve for teen's/women's magazine demographics."

http://jezebel.com/5023840/#c6613409 3:26 PM on Jul 10

newscience commented on Is Feminism Doomed?

"@LaComtesse: YES."

http://jezebel.com/5021074/#c6461988 12:19 PM on Jul 1

newscience commented on The Modern Wedding Ceremony: Full Of Patriarchal Pitfalls!

"In order to deal with my anxiety about getting married (even when my partner would so much as HINT at becoming engaged), I read "The Conscious Bride." Has anyone else here read it?"

http://jezebel.com/5019303/#c6361350 5:30 PM on Jun 24

newscience commented on Mormon Leaders Ask California Members To Fight Gay Marriage

"A close friend of mine is a former Mormon and a lesbian- she wrote a paper once about how much Mormon attitudes toward lesbianism have changed in the past century."

http://jezebel.com/5019106/#c6353255 11:54 AM on Jun 24

newscience commented on How Bad a Wife Would I Really Be?

"It always drives me crazy when I get the extension of this: "I know you'd be a good mother." When I just show basic human compassion and empathy- I can't hardly stand kids!!"

http://jezebel.com/5015057/#c6125839 1:57 PM on Jun 10

newscience commented on Animal Magnetisms