Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Jimmy Carter in The Guardian: The same discriminatory thinking lies behind the continuing gender gap in pay and why there are still so few women in office in Britain and the United States. The root of this prejudice lies deep in our histories, but its impact is felt every day. It is not women and [...]
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NPR’s Science Friday podcast: Currently only 20 percent of engineering undergraduates are women — and only ten percent of the engineering workforce is female. We’ll talk with Leslie Collins, executive director of the National Engineers Week Foundation, about the group’s ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering’ event.
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From Eureka Alert: New research by a team that includes vocational psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) indicates that the self-confidence instilled by parents and teachers is more important for young girls learning math and science than their initial interest. While interest is certainly a factor in getting older girls to study and pursue [...]
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Now, I don’t have time to blog on this extensively, but you can certainly check out my series of three posts (so far!) on ‘Women and Superstitions‘ where I’ve touched upon these issues before. In fact, go to my Essays pages for quite a bit on social influences. If you’re not familiar with the work [...]
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So, it’s Monday, and in a few days I’ll be on the road, again. Spot that recurring theme over the last few months or so on this blog? Here’s a few more directions I’ll be heading in, so you have a heads-up on how this blog will go from this week onwards. When I can, [...]
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Ah, research, I love it. Like today’s inbox – if you’re a teen girl who is on the internet too much and drink alcohol, it adversely influences your health! Or maybe you’d like to check out some punk-rock robots who pogo for science? “The robot brain, for want of a better word, was played lots [...]
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