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Reflections of a Woman in Science: September 2013

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Monday, September 2, 2013. Blazing the Trail 1 - Perseverance. I am currently reading Blazingthe Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science. Edited by Emma Ideal and Rhiannon Meharchand. The inspiration for this book came at the Fourth IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics in South Africa in April 2011. At that conference there was a presentation about the book Lilivati’s Daughters: the Women Scientists of India. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hot Topic: Global...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: April 2011

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Monday, April 18, 2011. Blogged about two situations: a male colleague speaking to her on the phone told her that he could hear she was getting emotional and her experience at a reception after an event when a complete stranger put his arm around her waist when a photographer appeared. FemaleScienceProfessor. Has an interesting study by Deepak Malhotr, Gillian Ku and J.Keith Murnighan on how competitive arousal leads to poor decision making.). Unwanted by the recipient.

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: December 2010

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Monday, December 27, 2010. In the absence of anything to watch on TV over the holidays, I've been watching videos from the internet. Here are three that I've found particularly interesting:. Why we have too few women leaders. Chief Operating Officer at Facebook (approx 15 min). While she acknowledges that changes in business practices are necessary, for example, flexible hours, in this talk she focuses on what individuals can do. Her three points are:. Professor of Hist...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: March 2011

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Thursday, March 17, 2011. The obstacles that women face in pursuing a career in science can conveniently be divided into three groups:. Structural issues such as the long training period, the predominance of insecure posts at early career level and that the period when people establish themselves as independent scientists coincides with the period of family formation. Cultural: stereo-typing, unconscious bias, family expectations. It is apparent that the situation is di...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: Evaluating Women in STEM Interventions

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Saturday, June 16, 2012. Evaluating Women in STEM Interventions. When I started working for WiSETI in. Small numbers. How do you know whether an observed increase is due to the intervention or just a random fluctuation? If you aggregate data from different departments are you doing it in a meaningful way? Is the proportion of job applicants who are female even the right quantity to monitor? What matters in the end is how many women are appointed. Does increasing the...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: February 2011

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Monday, February 21, 2011. More on Quantitative vs Qualitative Evidence. One perceived disadvantage of qualitative studies is that analyzing the data, for example, responses to interviews, is inevitably done within some particular interpretative framework. In fact, quantitative data is also interpreted within some framework but it is less usual to state what it is. For example, the Asset 2010. There are a number of ways of interpreting this:. If men are more likely to r...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: Motherhood and Career

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Saturday, March 24, 2012. Over Christmas, one of the books I read was ‘ Reading Women: how the great books of feminism changed my life. The book interweaves her thoughts as she reads through and discusses the texts with her own experiences and, if nothing else, provides a quick introduction to feminist thought over the centuries. A passage that particularly caught my attention was in a discussion of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. I also think we who have experien...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: Transforming Organizations

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Thursday, May 26, 2011. In a previous post. Structures and processes, with the additional complication that what actually happens may differ from what is laid down in an organisation’s policies and procedures. Rhetoric – what people say. Underlying assumptions and beliefs. The power culture depends on a small group or a single person who controls a central source of power. Organizations with this culture can react quickly but may move in the wrong direction. They ar...

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Reflections of a Woman in Science: Guide and Inspire

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Reflections of a Woman in Science. Monday, November 28, 2011. I am back blogging again after a break. Last week I arrived back from a trip to the. And in the pack of held mail left by the Post Office I found my November Toastmasters magazine. In it was an article called ‘Dare to Delegate’ by Judith E. Pearson. The first thing that struck me in this article was the sentence. 8216;Since Toastmasters leaders cannot hire or fire, they must instead guide and inspire.’. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).