Earlier today, absorbed in a conversation about whether soccer player Natasha Kai is My Type (i.e. a big girl), I looked up her player bio to figure out how much she weighed - and was flabbergasted to find nothing there.

I am very used to the USA Rugby Women's National Team player roster, which lists the height AND weight of each player. But, ( Read more... )

The desk I use at this temp job has a little "religious-quote-a-day" calendar. It looks hand written, black pen on white card. Usually the sentiments are somewhat saccharine for my taste, but yesterday the calendar read, "God does not promise a comfortable journey, only a safe landing."

Or, as krsnas_favorite might put it, "sometimes you just have to let go and ( Read more... )

Solitaire is like life: when you get stuck or lose, you're not always sure why, and there might not have been anything you could've done to make it turn out differently.

From Mary Crawford's Talking Difference: On Gender and Language, 1995:

Feminist theories of personality development (for example, Miller 1976/86) stress that 'feminine' characteristics such as passivity, excessive concern with pleasing others, lack of initiative, and dependency are psychological consequences of subordination. Members of ( Read more... )

I've been spending most of the morning* doing research for my internship. I'm done with the mindless sorting through business school websites, and I'm doing real research - looking at what experts say about gender inequality in MBA programs, why it happens, and how to fix it. It's a fairly interesting topic on its own, but as I read through all the ( Read more... )

...It's also a Spanish problemOn Tuesday, they were showing the France v. Spain game on a big screen in Sol, a big central plaza close to us. I convinced Amy that we should go see the last ten minutes of the game - we left when it was still 1-1, but arrived as the plaza just as France scored its second goal ( Read more... )

First, off: it's this kind of thing that really makes me think about gender differences ( Read more... )