Recent Posts Tagged With 'gender'

• Physics Graduate School

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 05:45 in science, gender, stephanie zvan

  I encounter the second year grad students. The ones who earned their class the name "The Class From Hell". They had a poster up in the TA office the previous year with a running total of how many female students came to see each TA. These amazing spe...

• Analiese’s Reading 5/20

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 18:48 in climate change, blogosphere, economics, gender, pawlenty, analiese miller

  Today we begin and end with stories about how the governor of Minnesota intends to end democracy as we know it in this state; notables get JFK award; FBI did, after all, infiltrate Iowa anti-war group, as suspected; Supreme Court to pregnant women: i...

• The First Hug

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 05:50 in gender, greg laden, human interactions

  In fact, you never know when somebody is going to come at you with their arms spreading outwards and their chin tilting to one side to avoid crunching faces. And when they get their arms around you, you never know how long it is supposed to last. Or ...

• Analiese’s Reading 3/17

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 19:04 in blogosphere, health care, gender, Gaza, domestic violence, voter fraud, international women's day, aig, wage gap, bush 43, analiese miller

  Politics at home and around the world: Martial law could be an improvement in Ciudad Juarez, 3,000 families homeless in Gaza, the UN Secretary-General's remarks on International Women's Day, the impact of conflict on women, Iraq's pariah widows, a fo...

• Gender Trends in Science and Medical Writing

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 06:17 in science, writing, top, gender

  As a medical writer, I've noticed that most medical writers I meet are female. A quick Google search using the keywords‚ "freelance medical writer‚" produced seven female and three male writers (approx. 2:1 ratio) from the first 10 eligible resul...