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Women and Science

Play Gender Bias Bingo!

Joan Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Women and Science, Professor, Gender Equality, Academics, Gender Stereotypes, Discrimination, Working Mothers, Mothers, Business News
Joan Williams

For over a decade, I have studied thirty years of experimental social psychology studies of gender bias. One message is clear -- gender bias, alas, is alive and well.

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Women of Science

Lee Schneider | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Google, Women and Science, Integrative Medicine, Lawrence Summers, Marissa Mayer, Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz, Confirmation Hearings, Sonia Sotomayor, Living News
Lee Schneider

Intuition is at the core of the risk-taking nature of science. Guys like to call intuition "a hunch." But those making a career of intuition -- placing it center stage -- are more likely to be women.

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Big Science in a Small City (Part 2): Three Cool Real Life Science Terms

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Big Science, Sublimation, Humor, Women and Science, Off-Gassing, Colorado, Civil Engineering, Green Living, Small City, Green Energy, Drought, Fiddle, Bread, Snow, Boulder, Ll Bean, Cu, Green Technology, Spline, Living News
Sharon Glassman

As a fan of science, I get goose-bumps chatting hanging out with people who ponder, pursue and decode the world's nano- to exo-.

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Big Science in a Small City

Sharon Glassman | Posted 07.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Humor, Physics, Women and Science, Dr. Susan Love, Richard Feynman, Kirsten Sanford, Caltech, Lisa Randall, Harvard, Michelle Thaller, James Joyce, Violin, Fiddle, Bluegrass, Quirks, Science, Cwa, Albert Einstein, Quarks, Cu, Style News
Sharon Glassman

Lingo without linguistics can be dangerous, I knew. One of the great things about life out West is that people respect newbies. And they don't begrudge mistakes.

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