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Hacking the Holiday, Academic Edition
Bitch. Ph.D. —
Authority: 514
Like many of my academic cohort, I can be quite bad at managing my work. To the tun of being bad at quarantining work-free times/paces for myself. As is often noted, tis the nature of the academic job. Which is why I feel pleased to report that I have just had my first ever (well, since being in grad school) work-free ...1 day ago -
UK Girls School Association Head tells Girls to be Realistic
GlennSacks.com —
Authority: 524
Jill Berry, head of the Girls School Association of the U.K. caused some excitement last week when she told secondary school girls to be realistic. Read about it here ( Guardian , 11/13/09). She told girls in private schools that, as they mature, they will face "an unprecedented amount of pressure to be a ...1 week ago -
Supporting Caregivers for National Family Caregivers Month
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
November is National Family Caregivers Month. In honor of these selfless individuals, I have written a blog for More.com, “Caregivers Deserve Year-Round Applause,” which focuses on the wide range of challenges facing the nation’s estimated 50 million caregivers. I share statistics, talk about AAUW’s policy ...1 week ago -
She’s Geeky, and So Am I
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
Last Friday, several colleagues and I participated in the She’s Geeky D.C. “unConference.” What is an unConference, you ask? It allows the attendees to determine the agenda and the presenters during a conference.Organizers Kaliya Hamlin and Heidi Nobantu Saul kicked off the event by asking each of us to ...1 week ago -
From the Real to the Ideal — Women Working in Health Care
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
In last week’s post I promised to take a focused look at women in the health care workforce. For both providers and patients, the gender gap has enormous consequences not only for how we understand American health care workers but also for how we take care of them. Society’s best interests require that both men ...1 week ago -
Yet Another British Businesswoman Raises Questions about Maternal Leave
GlennSacks.com —
Authority: 524
Nowadays, the majority of pregnant women I know take close to a year off, during which they are entitled to statutory maternity pay for up to 39 weeks. They return with the expectation and right to have their old job back after 52 weeks.Except that, when they do return, many of them dont want exactly their old job ...2 weeks ago -
Comments Welcome, but They Should Be about What Matters
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
When I first started following the Washington Post’s America’s Next Great Pundit competition, the field had been narrowed down to 10 contestants from the original 4,800 competitors. The winner of the ANGP contest will have the opportunity to write 13 weekly columns for the Post, an experience offering great media ...2 weeks ago -
go head on, shoshana johnson
Bitch. Ph.D. —
Authority: 514
What happens when you get someone who knows what theyre talking about on Larry King? This. Sure, read the post and look at the graph, but click on the Larry King video clip. Minute 3.00 to 3.40 is beautiousness . Im a POW! I got shot! I could look at that again and again. In fact, I will.3 weeks ago -
Stimulus Package Created Mostly Teaching Jobs
GlennSacks.com —
Authority: 524
The best symbol of the $787 billion federal stimulus program turns out not to be a construction worker in a hard hat, but rather a classroom teacher saved from a layoff. Thats the latest news from the employment front. It seems that, of the over 600,000 jobs saved or created by the federal stimulus spending so far, ...3 weeks ago -
The Quest for Work-Life Balance
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
I started writing a blog two weeks ago about a chapter in The Shriver Report—A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything called “Sick and Tired.” The chapter outlines some of the troubles women have finding health care, receiving health care, and caring for others. I began to write about the women who worked as ...3 weeks ago -
Who Is Deciding Your Future?
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
Tomorrow is Election Day, and across the country millions of eligible voters will stay home instead of going to the polls. While the 2008 presidential election saw a relatively high number of voters — about 64 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — the 2009 off-year election is not likely to generate long ...4 weeks ago -
Women in Prison: What Rights?
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”— Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Clearinghouse for Women’s Issues held a program on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., highlighting inequities and injustices that affect women throughout the criminal justice system. The panelists touched on a ...4 weeks ago -
Stuart Taylor: Feminist Hypocrisy, Inaccuracy about S.T.E.M. Hiring
GlennSacks.com —
Authority: 524
To this article by Stuart Taylor, I have little to add ( National Journal , 10/24/09). It seems that the campaign by feminists against men in academia continues. Needless to say, it is a campaign based on sex; many men, after all, agree with and promote feminist values and support feminist positions on many ...4 weeks ago -
Are we preaching to the choir?
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 466
Every time we talk about working through the system to get equal pay for women, you have to wonder if we are preaching to the choir.You would figure women should know already know about the inequity they experience—in pay, in job promotions, in caring for family members.Shouldn’t we focus our attention on getting ...4 weeks ago -
Three Ways To Not Solve Sexism, By Former Portfolio Editor
Jezebel —
Authority: 811
In Saturdays NY Times , former Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman attempted to critique the stalling of feminism in America . The result was so ham-handed and contradictory, it read like a tutorial on How Not to Talk About Sexism. Early in the piece, called "The Mismeasure of Woman," Lipman (thats her in the white, ...5 weeks ago -
Maternity Leave for Non-Mothers? Yes! Say British Women
GlennSacks.com —
Authority: 524
Hot on the heels of two high-ranking female corporate executives telling Parliament that employment laws that are biased in favor of women (such as those governing parental leave) run the risk of disadvantaging female employees, comes a survey commissioned by Red Magazine . Read about it here ( Telegraph , ...5 weeks ago
