🚨 Attn: #Women in the #fediverse and on #mastondon we need a hastag like #fedihelps for each other when the trolls descend so the squad shows up. Any ideas what it should be? 💅
Bees (that are not our bees) took over the shed. My daughter (a beekeeper) had to remove them. As she was working, a small child passing on a trike looked terrified and shouted 'Bee Men!'.
Looking at my female dominated grad cohort 20yrs ago, I expected we were going to be part of a shift to include more women in science as our careers advanced.
But retention percentages for women from student to full professor are the same now as they were when I started writing about it in the 2000s.
This excellent illustration, “The hostile obstacle course that #women & BIPOC have to endure in academia” is making the rounds again & it’s always worth resharing.
A while ago, suffering from PND, I started a project to try and coax myself out of what was utter isolation.
I asked women to pose for portraits without the makeup they would normally wear. It was interesting, some women turned up with no makeup, but some attended still with mascara, or their eyebrows done etc.
I called it 'As Others See Us' which is from the Scottish Poet Robert Burns...
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!'
In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate Bill 34, which restricted law enforcement from sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities. In 2023, now-Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper appears to be doing just that....
My "favourite" thing about this study is the part where achaeologists who found hunting tools/weapons in women's graves assumed they were kitchen implements.
Like, "well Hans, in this woman's grave, we found what inscriptions at the time have named the Flail of Vengeance. As of right now, we are not sure to what culinary task this tool was turned, but conjecture that it was possibly the preparation of small pies."
"Unless we summon the political will to stop Trump, MAGA extremists, and reactionary judges, hundreds of millions of women will be denied their right to make the most fundamental decisions regarding their lives and bodies."
More men need to take active measures to not follow women tbh.
Like, my partner will cross the street and go out of his way if he's walking behind a woman, so that she doesn't feel threatened or bothered by his presence.
Today I was "followed" by a man in a parking lot. I know he wasn't following me, I knew it at the time as well, that he was just walking to his car the same as I was.. but it scared me. A lot.
I would have appreciated it if he crossed away from me. It would have been a great kindness.
so one thing I do not understand about interacting with #women. Why is it necessary to talk about frustrations without the intention of also gaining solutions or advice to fix the problems? It is less efficient to talk about a problem and not solve it than it is to talk about a problem and then solve it after finding a viable solution. Why then is it necessary to talk about a problem with the intent of only venting frustration? Would it not be easier to just solve the problem after evaluating solutions with people and then solving it instead of having an unnecesssary meeting of the minds between those 2 other meetings? I am genuinely curious, please do not take this the wrong way, I am really truly trying to understand the thought process of this as I see such as completely irrelevant but I know I must understand it for future interactions in the future. Not saying all women do this, but it is generally a thought pattern I've seen only in women that I know.
'He said that postponing #childbirth is a “depraved practice” that causes #infertility and #miscarriages .'
He called for 'over-the-counter sales of emergency #contraceptives to be restricted in Russia by the end of this year.'
Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.
Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.
How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?
ESports' inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.
One Woman Died on an #Alaska Mayor’s Property. Then Another. No One Has Ever Been Charged.
Before they died, Jennifer Kirk and Sue Sue Norton were both victims of domestic violence, but the men involved — the ex-mayor’s sons — faced few consequences despite a long history of similar allegations.
"As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey."
~ Jess Piper
And the reason this matters — should matter to all of us — is that these white evangelical women not only want this for themselves: they want to impose it on all the rest of women.
OC No, you’re NOT a real gamer.
No, you’re NOT a real gamer....
Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show (www.sacbee.com)
In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate Bill 34, which restricted law enforcement from sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities. In 2023, now-Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper appears to be doing just that....
ESports makes debut as Asian Games medal event but women left behind (techxplore.com)
ESports' inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.