• Feminism

    Stovepipes and how mine is better than yours

    by  • February 15, 2008 • Collaboration, Feminism, Organizations, Rant, Research, Social Computing, Technology, Wikis • 0 Comments

    Ok, so now I’ve done some reading, and I have dusted some of the luster off the academia-business divide.  (It’s Friday; I wrote another proposal draft yesterday; I’ll be unpredictable today.) I’m reading Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007″ report.  I got it from Socialtext, but I’m not sure how. ...

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    Best Jobs of 2008: Professor

    by  • February 14, 2008 • Feminism, Links, Politics • 0 Comments

    U.S. News included “Professor” on its list of 31 best jobs for 2008. That’s cool. They even provide an executive summary of why they like it so much. They’re right that tenure is pretty sweet, if you can get it. They’re not so right that being a woman helps you land a tenure-track job...

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    Feminism shouldn’t be dead

    by  • May 4, 2007 • Feminism, Politics, Rant • 0 Comments

    I’ve begun to pay more careful and meaningful attention to gender and gender politics lately. Those of you who know me know that this is not an earth-shattering change for me. What’s different about this change is not that I’m thinking about gender politics but that I’m getting frustrated. I even emailed with my...

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