Astronomy
Following up on the discussion about being ignored both here on the blog and in AASWOMEN, here's an interesting article from last week in USA Today about Justice Ginsburg. (See also commentary from the XX factor at Slate.com.)
Much of the article is about Ginsburg's career history and strong opinions about having another woman on the Court, but this part sticks out:
You'd think that in the 21st century and in the highest court in the land that being ignored for being a woman wouldn't be an issue. Then again, those of us familiar with being in a minority of around 11% (say, in certain physical sciences) might understand how it happen.
h/t to A, who keeps sending me such interesting articles!
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Astronomy
Supremely Ignored
Following up on the discussion about being ignored both here on the blog and in AASWOMEN, here's an interesting article from last week in USA Today about Justice Ginsburg. (See also commentary from the XX factor at Slate.com.)
Much of the article is about Ginsburg's career history and strong opinions about having another woman on the Court, but this part sticks out:
"I don't know how many meetings I attended in the '60s and the '70s, where I would say something, and I thought it was a pretty good idea. ? Then somebody else would say exactly what I said. Then people would become alert to it, respond to it."
Even after 16 years as a justice, she said, that still sometimes occurs. "It can happen even in the conferences in the court. When I will say something ? and I don't think I'm a confused speaker ? and it isn't until somebody else says it that everyone will focus on the point."
You'd think that in the 21st century and in the highest court in the land that being ignored for being a woman wouldn't be an issue. Then again, those of us familiar with being in a minority of around 11% (say, in certain physical sciences) might understand how it happen.
h/t to A, who keeps sending me such interesting articles!
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I wrote a blog in June on the early women's rights movement in the US and the famous Seneca Falls Convention. As with the civil rights movement, Quakers played a key role in the push toward equality. Today I am writing about the fascinating...
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The US Supreme Court will hear the case Fisher v. The University of Texas this fall in a case testing the limits of affirmative action in college admissions set by the previous case Grutter v. Bollinger. A young white woman, Abigail Fisher, was denied...
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One of the risks of being on the CSWA is that my friends regularly send me email that makes me angry.* Like the link to the "Womanspace" article in Nature, as reported on in AASWOMEN last week. The comments were particularly interesting to read. I was...
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