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In a recent essay in the Atlantic, Garance Franke-Ruta tackled the question of why women are becoming more and more educated and yet still are way underrepresented in the top echelons of the business world. Her answer is that the skills that reward you in academia are ( Read more... )

Originally published at Possible Impossibilities. You can comment here or there.

I suspect that people will be coming here to find out more about me because of this. I don’t have much to add to what I have already said, so I am reposting my little manifesto: My people: Deciding whether or not a woman is allowed to call herself a nerd is just more ( Read more... )

Originally published at Possible Impossibilities. You can comment here or there.

It’s too bad that the only panel I attended at Comic-Con this year was “Oh, You Sexy Geek.” I was, unfortunately, disappointed - and, at the end, disgusted. The discussion was dominated by America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry and actress Clare Grant, whose ( Read more... )