Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudiced against code written by women. After all, women make up a very small percentage of software developers – 11.2% according to one 2013 survey – and the…
In a detective novel, you begin in a state of ignorance and advance toward knowledge, clue by clue. The little indicators add up at last to a revelation that sets the world to right and sees that justice is done, or at least provides the satisfaction of a world made clear in the end. If…
There’s got to be a better way you could have put that, CDC. In an effort to raise awareness of and prevent fetal alcohol syndrome, on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued sweeping recommendations on alcohol consumption. And they got a mite preachy about it. “More than 3 million US women are…
Elinor Ostrom is a great example of a woman political scientist who knew stuff — in fact, she won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009. (Holger Motzkau/Wikimedia) Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious? It’s not, alas. We’re a group of political scientists who started that website when, as we consumed media reports…
Photo: Karen Novak / Courtesy of Elizabeth Yuko. First, I had to tell the story of my sexual assault to the police officer at the reception desk, in front of what appeared to be the rest of the precinct. After a few minutes of awkwardly waiting, and trying not to make eye contact with…
If it weren’t so sad, this bollocks would have made my day. https://t.co/UHAg2pMTxL pic.twitter.com/ruOfIjr3eh — Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) February 11, 2016 It’s best to try to ignore tabloids if possible, but every now and then, it’s important to remember the intense scrutiny and unnecessary pressure that they place upon actors — especially women actors, and…
Civil rights icon John Lewis told reporters that he never encountered Bernie Sanders when the Vermont senator was working with Lewis’ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Because he made his remarks at a press conference announcing the Congressional Black Caucus PAC’s endorsement of Sanders’ opponent, Hillary Clinton, Lewis’ comments can be seen…
Our vision at Etsy is that business can be used for good, and that thinking about our impact on people and values can go hand in hand with thinking about profits. As we grow, our commitment to that vision remains at the core of our identity and is woven into the decisions we make in…
Pay up, kid Look, being shot to death by police doesn’t get you off the hook when it comes to paying your medical bills. At least according to the City of Cleveland, which filed a notice with the probate court Wednesday, demanding that the estate of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old who was shot to death by…
“Funny, right?” she says, smiling. It was her job to rip out the news as it came into the newsroom and hand it to the men in charge. It went on like that for a while. Even when she finally scored a position in the White House press corps, she knew where she stood….