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For whatever reason, Cody inspires curiosity and strong feelings (positive/negative) in people who care about the entertainment industry, but at this point — two years after both the release of her first book and the premiere of Juno, and almost a year after she won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay — she's an established success... as a screenwriter. People need to give the woman some credit for her current career, and interviewers (especially late-night talk show hosts) need to stop asking her about her brief stint in the sex industry. The continued attention to this issue reduces her to a cute, sex (anecdote) machine and distracts from the fact that she's a success in a segment of an industry not known for its positive representations of women — behind the keyboard or on-screen. Who knows, maybe Diablo Cody and her handlers don't mind the continued fuss; after all, sex sells. But it's getting annoying.

I am a young (female) mechanical engineer, and have just graduated from college.
Anyhow, I am starting my first serious job, and would like to know what to wear in the business-casual workplace. Do I accent my femininity? Play it down? As you can imagine, this is a male-dominated field, so there aren't many female examples to look at in this case.

I also worry about being taken seriously if I am trendy or stylish. Sometimes engineers will look down upon you if you put effort into looking put together- as in, you should be too busy with your work and such to be getting regular haircuts. In interviews, I always made a point to wear pantsuits as opposed to skirt suits so as not to seem to "girly"... as in "I could fit in here, I'm just like you guys!"

I appreciate the posts Jezebel does about women in the sciences. We've started a program at the local high school to expose the girls there to engineering fields, so hopefully things will be looking up in terms of gender parity....

In the meantime, any advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated!