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Biologist Responds to Sexual Harassment by Writing Wikipedia Articles About Women in Science
A Biologist Is Writing a Wikipedia Article About a Woman Scientist For Every Harassing Email She GetsYou probably won’t be shocked to read that she has written a whole bunch. Emily Temple-Wood is an undergrad at Loyola University who will be heading to medical school in the fall. Online harassment wasn’t her original impetus when she began ( Read more... ) -
Women's HERstory Month Day 29: Women in Refrigerators
tw for mentions of sexual assault of fictional characters.
Women in Refrigerators is a trope identified by comic book fan (and now comic book writer) Gail Simone because she was sick of seeing ”superheroines who have been either depowered, assaulted, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator.”
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Women's HERstory Month Day 28: Fighting for Life, the story of Dr. Sara Josephine Baker
SARA JOSEPHINE BAKER: PHYSICIAN AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORKER, 1873-1945
by Marsha Lakes Matyas
The American Physiological Society
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Women's HERstory Month Day 27: The Night Witches
So basically instead of trying desperately to catch up, these will probably continue into April unless any of the mods has an issue with it?
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Women's HERstory Month Day Twenty-Three: A Short History of Women Inventors and Scientists
Oh God, I am so sorry for getting so behind, everyone!
This is an excerpt of The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, as part of Neatorama’s review (and giveaway contest) for the book.
Even though it’s said that "necessity is the mother of invention," women’s contribution to inventing and science have been, in the past, ( Read more... )
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