Annalee Newitz, co-editor of the
book and
blog She's Such a Geek!, declared 2007 the "Year of Women in Science." Newitz attributes recent focus on women in the sciences to backlash against
Larry Summers' "ass-minded comments." Her
post (12/19/06) highlights some 2006 studies investigating the role of women in the sciences. This week, the
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I was thinking about this post, and I realized that I didn't really look into the geek cred of the sexy geek girls on the sites I noted today. It's entirely possible that they're PhDs or something, and that I didn't give them their appropriate props, because they were presented as sex symbols and not as role models.
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There's something wrong when a discussion of women in science begins with a pejorative category like "geek". It seems to transfer the issue from one of institutionalized sexism to something about an individual's freakish tendency to enjoy role-playing games of whatever. As someone who's worked for two rather successful female scientists, it does get under my skin to see Paris Hilton and Lisa Simpson billed as examples.
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