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But most young women without children, including myself until recently, think about things like "harassment" and "wage gaps" when sexual discrimination comes up, without really understanding how much issues of motherhood not only contribute to harassment and wage gaps, but are totally valid issues by themselves. Because I think I used to feel like women who chose to have babies were choosing their choice and they'd have to deal with the consequences of their choice, and so "mother's issues" were not "women's issues," because not all women have kids. But that's simplistic, naive, and kind of spectacularly dumb. But issues of motherhood and career are usually shunted into their own world of discussion and discrimination, instead of being dealt with as one more aspect of run of the mill misogyny. And I really liked that she explicitly brought them together.
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On the other hand, I hate that she feels the need to do this. Because it does send this other message that somehow women have to justify how their career choices affect their family (or lack thereof). We don't see male Nobel Prize winners pictured with their kids because we don't judge men's accomplishments based on how they affected their families. We judge them and their accomplishments based on their work alone. I wish it could be this way for women too.
10/13/09
I think my use of scare quotes has become erratic as the day goes on, and for much of this comment I've been talking about men and women as concepts of genders, not actual people.
10/13/09
I agree, and I think that ties in to what I said about how even people without kids should be able to have better life balance than the current average workplace allows. I do understand that this is what she was going for and I like that. I agree with her that I would like to see more men bring their families up on stage when their big accomplishments are being rewarded and to see more men talking about how they balance family and personal lives.
10/13/09
Fancy production crew walks into lab: Hold up a beaker... It doesn't matter if you haven't toucher a beaker in 10 years.... let's mix up some random colored water and put it in various beakers that you can hold up.... cells growing with no context to the shot.. do it.
10/13/09
The green liquid? 1X PBS with calibration dye in it. Total nonsense. But damn, did it look good in the context of the piece they did.
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Go, Elinor! And Go IU!!
10/12/09
Hooray hooray for IUB!
10/12/09
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I'm also loving her tie dyed shirt, kind of a lot.
Most of all, though, from what others (on other blogs) have said, she's the sort of academic who is thorough, not flashy, but usually *right*. Shows you don't need to have a bestselling book (ala Freakonomics) or be a world-famous columnist (ala Krugman) to be, nonetheless, slowly and steadily making real, important progress on some very important issues.
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10/10/09
The 15 women won over the course of 106 years, from 1903 (when Curie the elder won for Physics) to the present. One-third of the laureates were honored in the last FIVE YEARS. If you go back another 27 years from that to 1977, you get another third of the laureautes.
In what I'm sure is a pure and unadulterated coincidence, male-female enrollment in college became equal in 1980. I mean, surely it is ludicrous to suggest that women have historically performed worse in math and science because they had unequal educational opportunities! The fact that females are starting to receive science Nobels in rapidly increasing numbers about one research career after women achieved educational parity is just a funny aberration, and shouldn't be held up as proof that encouraging science education for girls is worthwhile.
And we definitely shouldn't write Larry Summers gloating e-mails telling him to take his biological difference and shove it up his blastopore.
10/09/09
Store this in your brain and hope it comes up in bar trivia sometime.
10/09/09
I wonder what the demographics for hard science Nobels will look like from here on out, now that many women who benefited from increased access to scientific careers starting in the 1970s are now at a stage in their careers where their work can be considered for the prize (e.g. the work for which Yonath was honored was conducted in the 70s).
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10/05/09
I really feel like I missed out on science. I had a learning disability that was only discovered in 10th grade that made it near impossible for me to remember formulas and do math. Because of that, science has always been a nightmare for me. I remember tearful nights of trying to go through Chem homework I just literally could not understand.
Now that I'm older, I watch tons of TV programs about "lite" science (I guess) and I'm absolutely FASCINATED by it all. I wish I could go back in time and become a scientist. I love it. I wish there was a way for me to sort of understand it all now, apart from watching the Discovery Channel.
Any Jezzies have any good tips on easy science books or things I can do?
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10/05/09
I LOVE YOU BILL BRYSON.