By Scott Jaschik. Smith College's board on Saturday approved an admissions policy that explicitly welcomes applications from transgender people who identify as female. Read more...
10 mai 2015
10 mai 2015
Smith College to Accept Transgender Applicants Who Identify as Women
By Charles Huckabee. In a clarification of its admissions policy, Smith College has announced that it will begin accepting undergraduate applicants who consider themselves to be transgender women. The decision, approved by the college’s Board of Trustees on Saturday, “affirms Smith’s unwavering mission and identity as a women’s college, our commitment to representing the diversity of women’s lived experiences, and the college’s exceptional role in the advancement of women worldwide,” the college said in a statement on its website. More...
10 mai 2015
How to Remove Bias From Peer Review
By Teri W. Odom. The ugly side of peer review was on full display last week when a scientific paper was rejected for reasons that smacked of sexism. Two female authors had submitted a paper to a journal that is part of the open-access PLOS family. More...
10 mai 2015
Record numbers of female and minority-ethnic MPs in new House of Commons
By Helena Bengtsson, Sally Weale and Libby Brooks. Nearly a third of Commons now female and number of minority-ethnic MPs has doubled but Oxbridge still dominates choice of university and average age rises. More...
10 mai 2015
Take care, female students – you owe it to yourselves
By Jinan Younis. Worn down by a toxic blend of stereotyping, relentless deadlines and guilt, women at universities are making time for a bit of self care. More...
10 mai 2015
Even the best female graduates don't believe they can have it all
By Lauren Davidson. Women account for the majority of university students in the UK and a growing proportion of university applicants, but the nation’s brightest female graduates are overwhelmingly concerned about how they will fare in the world of work. Read more...
4 mai 2015
Game of Fear
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Game of Fear
Zachary Jason, Boston Magazine, 2015/04/30
At some point in the past advertisers decided computers and video games were only for boys, and women have been paying the price ever since. This article describes what one writer called "the nauseating pathology behind Gamergate." I can't read this without getting angry. More...
4 mai 2015
Smith College Now Admits Trans Women
By . After years of criticism, the women's college has formally changed its admission policy. Smith College has formally changed its admission policy to be inclusive of trans-feminine people.
The prestigious women's college, which in the past has come under fire for refusing to admit trans students, released an announcement this week clarifying that it will consider any applicant who identifies as a woman. More...
4 mai 2015
Welcoming Trans Academics
By Lisa Hager. In the past few years, transgender people and the discrimination they face have become much more visible through the work of folks like Laverne Cox, Mara Keisling, Janet Mock, Michael Munson and a whole host of everyday people standing up for the rights of trans people to be who they are. Read more...
3 mai 2015
Reviewer Suggests Female Researchers Recruit Male Co-Authors to Raise Paper’s Credibility
By Andy Thomason. Reviewer Suggests Female Researchers Recruit Male Co-Authors to Raise Paper’s Credibility. More...
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