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Sexist men assume that female engineers are feminists.
Twenty years ago, a Canadian man, who believed that he was fighting “feminism”, massacred fourteen women at an engineering school. Some men think that all female engineers are “feminists”, because they...
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Environmental and social barriers restrict women in science, tech,...
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (PDF) is a new, publicly-accessible research report by AAUW that “presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research...
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Discussing sexism in geek communities is more important than discussing...
Some female geeks use the discourse of increasing female representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (the “STEM” fields) as a proxy for addressing sexism in geek communities. Because...
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Myths about Girls, Math, and Science
Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science (LiveScience 2007): Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Reality: In elementary school about as...
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Across the calculus sections, women outperformed men on grades.
Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What the new research shows, Dasgupta said, is...
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Misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo hates scientist Marie Curie...
In The Fourteen Not Forgotten and Sexist Posters at Waterloo, Christine Cheng discusses a misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo who put up fourteen posters last month (February 2011)...
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