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Plight of the Funny Female
The Atlantic: A few years ago, Laura Mickes was teaching her regular undergraduate class on childhood psychological disorders at the University of California, San Diego. It was a weighty subject, so occasionally she would inject
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Boys and Girls, Constrained by Toys and Costumes
The New York Times: A web search for Halloween costumes of scientists produces only boys wearing lab coats and goggles. A search for nursing costumes turns up girls in skirts with stethoscopes. Cats and cupcakes
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Stress Affects How Men and Women Provide Support to Partners
Men and women both provide strong support to their partners, but women tend to do a better job of being supportive under stressful situations.
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Why Men Still Edge Out Women in Tech Jobs
The world’s top tech companies have realized that unconscious bias is bad for business. Elite companies like Facebook and Google are worried that subtle prejudices—for example, the implicit attitude that men are better than women
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Remembering Janet Taylor Spence
Janet Taylor Spence, a transformative scientist, consummate professional leader, and committed member of all the communities to which she belonged, died on Cape Cod at the age of 91. Just 6 weeks before, she had
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Janet Taylor Spence: A Life in Science
August 29, 1923: Janet Taylor is born in Toledo, Ohio 1945: Taylor receives an undergraduate degree in psychology and political science at Oberlin College 1949: Taylor graduates from the University of Iowa with a PhD in psychology. Her
