The Art and Science of Everything

Formerly thoughts on gender and technology, I'm expanding this as a place to just generally geek out on gender, technology, design, cognition, perception, and culture. The title should not be considered hubris, but instead enthusiasm.

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

I found this article and thought it was really interesting:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/7507887.htm

It discuses women leaving their corporate careers in their 40s or so. It touches on diversity in the workforce, corporate politics, and entrepreneurship.

The women discussed in the article are in their 40s and 50s, but I know that female engineer friends of mine approaching graduation seem to have these sorts of stories as well. One friend is leaving biomechanical engineering after graduation (at least for a while) to pursue her passion for education. Another wants to pursue economic development -- whether it puts her CS major to work or not. But I know men who go through this too, though they are also less than a handful. I wonder if there are studies that actually have looked at this in a systematic manner.

This article is all gender, little technology. :)

Monday, December 15, 2003

90% of stress research has been done on men so far. Turns out that men and women aren't necessarily the same in their responses.

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Research - Gender and Diversity Issues
- interesting stuff about how diversity affects workgroup performance, predicting factors for how hospitable startups are to women, etc