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by kaitai 9y ago
Meric (to whom you're replying) does have a point -- if you can effectively bar women from economic activity they're much more likely to stay home or do community and volunteer work. There are certain advantages to forcing segment
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by kaitai 9y ago
Hitting on women inappropriately isn't illegal. Being a slimy VC and using your position to meet the ladies isn't illegal. Nor is sending explicit texts, as long as the target isn't underaged and you're not technically s
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by kaitai 9y ago
To amplify your last statement, I recently had a kid. It was a low-risk pregnancy and in the end a fast and boring birth -- could have had the kid in a clean barn with some qualified attendants, in the end. But to get this boring, normalish
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by kaitai 9y ago
But this is because Medicare reimbursement rates are set by a panel of specialists (I believe there is one internal medicine doc and then every specialty is represented, so getting a stent sure does get reimbursed well while counseling a di
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Healthcare services and products are unsustainably expensive in the US. This is not quite true in the rest of the world. Part of this is economic and structural, and part of it is American psychological and societal problems with letting pe
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This is not a full picture of entrepreneurship or small business ownership. Entrepreneurship, especially in "middle America", also encompasses starting your own hair salon chain with an innovative approach to curly hair, or trying
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Librarians across the US are heavily involved in efforts to promote free and open textbooks. I don't really know what's happening, but university librarians all over are promoting open texts, providing hosting for them, working to
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Hallelujah and amen. Institutional support is crucial. I have found that librarians are more likely to provide material and monetary support than departments.
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There's a huge ecosystem of open textbooks, and two of my favorite math sources the AIM textbook initiative and the UMN open texts library. American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative -- note that they review the texts
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There are two distinct uses of "dude". One is as an exclamation (not a form of address). "Dude, I'd never do that" is the approximate example in the article, and a woman might say that to another woman. She is not c
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This is true for commodity jobs. It would be nice to have employers realize that sometime there is a better-qualified woman -- like, one who would do better work -- and that maternity leave is a very short part of a long career.
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Women (fortunately or unfortunately) are not permitted these contracts either. It's not possible to promise chastity or childlessness or plead hysterectomy and get more money; the actual condition of one's reproductive equipment o
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That would only be true if abortion and plan b were always accessible and economical.
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Killing abortion providers or bombing a clinic explicitly in the name of some version of Christianity are examples of Christian terrorism, though, which have happened in the US recently. These are not acts that are incidental to the religio
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Do you have any evidence to back these statements up? Asking as a female mathematician hanging out with my math gal pals for the week... just talking about how to algorithmically test some of our conjectures & drinking wine while gettin
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"I’m always a little bit wary of coming off sounding like I’m the very first person to work on this idea; I just want to be clear that’s not the claim." -- from the article
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If you read the petition, it doesn't say anything about being banned from campus [1]. The title IX investigation was ridiculously mishandled, agreed, and the two grad student complainants also allege it was mishandled [2]. The whole th
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by kaitai 10y ago
As a prof, I just don't understand why people in this discussion think I should be spending part of the $4,000 allotted for a year's worth of travel funding for speakers on some genocide advocate. And then I gotta host 'em an
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Universities are educational institutions, and invited speakers are invited by little committees made up of professors, students, administrators, and board members. The chemistry dept has some speaker series and they figure hey we gotta ple
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I work at a university and don't find that my students are protected from dealing with uncomfortable topics. I do find that they're more willing to talk about uncomfortable topics than in the past -- people say they don't lik
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by kaitai 10y ago
That's quite a grab bag. Should we throw in radical veganism, Zionism, and libertarianism too? How are you going to measure the "moral equivalency" or non-equivalency of these positions? So, to get started, these are all obje
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It's pretty interesting to look at research on this; it's not just SES and literacy. Nor is genetics to blame in many situations. I don't have access right now to the enormous pile of literature I have at home about this (pri
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If we're suggesting fiction that deals with the aftereffects, Alyssa Cole has a short series of short novels called Off the Grid that explore the situation. They're in the romance genre, so perhaps a bit different than the usual H
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by kaitai 10y ago
How is this list presenting these people as needing extra help? They're all on the list because they have successful companies or had successful funding rounds, and also fall in the category of 'female'. If it was 'top S
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by kaitai 10y ago
Fertile ground... :) Moving on, agreed on follow-up studies. A study similar to this one looking at adolescent moms, non-moms, dads, and non-dads would be very interesting as well. After all, if a teen guy is undergoing similar pruning, wha
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by kaitai 10y ago
You know what's super-interesting? Although it's deeply under-researched and still subject to a lot of argument, there's mounting evidence that men going through a partner's pregnancy experience significant hormonal chan
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Note that this study shows significant and multi-year structural changes between women who have experienced pregnancy and birth and women who did not conceive or give birth during the same time period. This is not a study that is primarily
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I have to say I don't think the article supports that at all. The study looks at a 2-year stretch and the changes in all but the hippocampus are still there at 2 years. Even friends who have reported "baby brain" don't c
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I don't know much about the reality of 'baby brain', but in the study under discussion the researchers tested cognitive skills like memory, verbal skills, and working memory, and there was no significant change over time. It
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It's unfortunate that the link that made the front page here is to the BBC article rather than the NYTimes article [1] on the same study, as the NYTimes article much more clearly addresses a number of the points brought up by commenter

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