Smile, Boys! It Would Make The World So Much Prettier For Us Women!
The other day, a male friend of mine was at the grocery store in the check out line. He was not feeling particularly happy, and, I guess, was frowning a little. A dude in line behind him tapped him on...
View ArticleWhatever Happened To “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar”?????
I was catching up on reading at Female Science Professor’s place and came across her post: Women Girls. FSP, as far as I can tell, seems to be saying that the young ones these days are all hip with the...
View ArticleSolving Gender Equity Issues One Long, Slow, Pleasurable Step At A Time
We are a mere ten years into the 21st century. No jet packs for all yet, but things are moving at a lightning pace at Yale in the policy area. After more than a quarter century of debate, Yale faculty...
View ArticleWah Wah, Where Is The Stuff For White Men?
A recent conversation with a friend reminded me of yet another of the “death by a thousand paper cuts**” craptastic things I used to hate dealing with in my days in the scientific workforce. You know...
View ArticleWhy Are You So Angry?
Thegoodman really, really wants to know. If you do not consider yourself a failure, that is great. Why then are you so angry about this situation? If it has worked out well for you, what is driving...
View ArticleRearranging Pipet Tips…
A friend of mine (maybe YOU are that friend?) will be soon be leaving a job at Wackaloon Scientific Enterprises where said friend is supervised by sadistic micromanaging douchebags from hell with poor...
View ArticleWork-Life Balance 2: On Stepping Up To The Plate
First post in this series can be found here. The third and final post in this series can be found here. ScientistMother really wants DrugMonkey to step up to the plate already. She says that DM laid...
View ArticleWork-Life Balance 3: Less Navel-Gazing, More Scholarly And Institutional...
First post in this series can be found here. Second post in this series can be found here. In my second post in this series, I gave the men a cookie, and commenter rpf accused me of…gasp!…being too...
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