Archive for the ‘feminism’ Category
by westwood All too frequently, horror stories of rape pop up in the news. Those that are considered newsworthy are extreme, like what has happened in Steubenville. What doesn’t get covered is the thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands? we will never know due to drastic under-reporting) of sexual assaults and rapes that happen every […]
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Tags: definitions, gender, harassment, rape, sex, sexual assault, slut, slut shaming, virgin, virginity
The new glass ceiling
by westwood There is a new glass ceiling for women in science, and it isn’t what you would expect. This is a reprint of a piece of mine originally published in the Dal gazette, found here (without the cartoons or the emphasis, naturally). _____ In today’s first grade classrooms, an impromptu survey of “What do […]
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Tags: career, feminism, gender gap, NSERC, patriarchy, science, scientists
When she grows up
by westwood I was having lunch in a lab at the local university the other day, midst graduate students, post-docs, and professors. Of the 10 of us in the room, only two were men. Not a weird ratio for undergraduates, but very odd for high-level science. A high school student, deer in headlights, wandered into our lunch. […]
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Tags: feminism, gender, graduate studies, master's, men, ratios, science, university, women
