About that buzzfeed article “Study: Genders Aren’t So Different After All” – take a careful look at those graphs. Describe to me what exactly those graphs are measuring. Coming up blank? Maybe that’s because the axes aren’t labeled and there are no captions. These graphs are absolutely meaningless as is. Oh – and the source [...]

I think this is a good point. In my experience, it seems as though male/female couples tend to move around to accomodate the man’s job more than the woman’s job. This points to a man’s greater flexibility in general to change jobs. Maybe employers pick up on this, even if subconsciously, and know they are [...]

You know, weirdly, I’m not sure that I’ve ever been harassed on the street. I’m in my 30s, so I’m certainly old enough. I lived for several years in Manhattan, where I walked constantly. So I’ve certainly been female and on a street in front of men. Yet, I can’t really think of any incidents. [...]

BBC news has an article about this, too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957848 Speaking as a woman engineer, this just drives me crazy. How are we going to encourage women to study engineering when our culture keeps telling them that their only place is as a ‘booth babe’? And how are we going to keep women who are in [...]

Second link minus the login: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/world/americas/in-chile-abortion-hot-line-is-in-legal-gray-area.html?_r=0

It looks like the grio article you are siting for Lena Horne’s death is from May 2010. (Not that we can’t still morn the loss in October 2012.)

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