women in STEM
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A day in the life: 6:30-8:30 Morning routine (lunches, drive Eldest to school, wake/feed the Littles, make self presentable) 8:30-9:00 Morning commute (w/ possible drop-off of 1-2 of the Littles) 9:00-5:30 Work 5:30-6:00 Evening commute (w/ possible pickup of 1-2 of the Littles) 6:00-7:00 Dinner prep, dinner 7:00-8:30 Playtime with kids (DH is the bomb!) 8:30-9:30 Bedtime
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A Chemical Imbalance — a film, a book and a call for action The movie (below) and project are about women in STEM and their continued under-representation. The movie illustrates the issue through historical data and interviews with several faculty from the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry (recipient of the Athena Swan Gold Award).
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For faculty on the semester system, there are only a couple of weeks of teaching left. This is probably the busiest time of the year, due to the sinister convergence of the semester ending and the conference season approaching. Program committees of many conferences are working hard these days to evaluate the abstracts; I am
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I have been a professor for nearly 10 years. I am good at what I do and respected within my community, as small as it is. I am well-funded, although that’s always a temporarily accurate statement. As I do theory and computation, I don’t bring in oodles of money, but I have always been able to support
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I am fortunate to have a faculty job at a great public R1 university. Owing to the high research activity, there is always someone here to give a talk. There are three seminar series, associated with three departments, that I usually attend (generally biweekly), and another 1 or 2 where occasionally an interesting seminar comes
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Career women face a double bind: the more competent and assertive they are, the less liked they are (these traits are positively correlated with likability for men, negatively for women), and reduced likability makes women less effective as leaders . If they are not very assertive, they may be well-liked but they are not perceived as
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This semester I am again teaching a class with zero girls (as I wrote before, I feel silly calling 19 or 20-year old girls women; based on the fact that I didn’t consider myself a woman well until after kid No 2 and past the age of 30, I am sticking to calling them girls).
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