Feminism —
Perhaps Kyso Kisaen will be a bloggy guide and muse through the Rite of Femminess otherwise known as getting hitched; she seems to have her priorities straight:
I already know shit like “less booze = less money” or “borrow stuff or make it, teehee!” Any dumbass knows that skipping a 4-tier cake-orgy in favor of a […]
Here’s some sage advice:
Miss Manners realizes that people say these things [disaster stories] to mothers because they don’t know what else to say. She recommends dropping the category of potential mother, saying “Congratulations” to expectant mothers, “How adorable!” to new mothers and, to the rest, “So — how are the kids?”
Now if only the medical […]
Thanks for reminding me, San Francisco Chronicle!
You intended to impress your date by taking her to one of the city’s most elegant fine-dining establishments. Moments after being seated, you’ve been presented with a leather-bound wine list the size of the Manhattan telephone directory. Fifteen hundred wines and not one word of useful description on any […]
Blog-fixing-upping won’t happen until June, but it will happen - and almost certainly under the same familiar brand and domain name, archives to be restored just as soon as I can figure out how. Meanwhile:
On mentoring:
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that if the profession were all it’s cracked up to be, […]
Just a selection of data from this report on the gender pay gap in academia:
Academic Discipline
Women
Men
N
Women
Men
Female differential
Earth, Atmosphere, and Oceanographic Sciences
8.0%
92.0%
50
$64,751
$79,410
-$14,659
Civil Engineering
15.0%
85.0%
40
$65,169
$78,829
-$13,660
Mechanical Engineering
8.0%
92.0%
50
$66,979
$88,958
-$21,979
Physics
7.3%
92.7%
55
$55,411
$86,600
-$31,189
Physical Sciences, Other
15.0%
85.0%
20
$67,418
$76,327
-$8,909
The report doesn’t list discipline-specific corrections for things like experience, number of publications, external funding, etc., but it does take those factors into account studywide - and […]
I had a bruising encounter with a copy of USA Today (which I found on top of a trash bin in the Oakland Airport) this morning. Apparently they’re making Desperate Housewives into a video game. Why? They needed something with stereotypes in it:
“As fans of the show would expect, the game is loaded with gossip, […]
Jerry wants some help identifying a mineral; I’m inclined to say “uh, green, um, chlorite? epidote?” but that’s why I’m not a real geologist. He’s also got some tomatoes going, and by zoinks, it’s March, time to get cracking on these recalcitrant scavenged Cherokee Purples!
Am I the only one who finds her eyebrows falling out […]
I’ve been having a bit of an argument with a Bitch about the correct use of the word “patriarchy”. She’s been very interested in arguing that patriarchy is worthless as an idea, and to present those arguments she uses “patriarchy” in the sense that radical feminists have used it, as well as people like Heidi […]
I won’t be participating in Blog Against Sexism Day, because I need no such kicks in the pants to rail against the form of oppression that happens to affect me most. But I’m looking forward to Bitch | Lab’s promised entry on why “patriarchy” is a dumb word:
I’m sitting here this morning drinking my joe […]
Someone’s been turning the stairwells of my building into gender-segregated classifieds. The poster on the avant garde of the Jobs for Men section depicts a woman grabbing a man’s wallet pocket, with the text “She will really want the junk in your trunk* / The average guy working for us next summer will earn […]