Fall 2015, Page 23

By Lillie Mucha
The difference between gender as a spectrum versus as a binary construct is one that is very close to me. I’ve known for several years that I don’t fall perfectly into the category of a “stereotypical female,” and I suspect that…

As soon as I finished reading the chapter, I remember a clip that was shown to us during orientation. It was a Super Bowl’s advertisement in the year of 2015 called “Like a Girl”. In the clip, adults and a little boy were asked to run “like …

The report entitled “Women at the Top in Science- and Elsewhere” discussed a broad array of topics and concerns regarding women in science. Author Virginia Valian discusses advantages, gender schemas, and entity and incremental theorists amongst ot…

                  
Writer Virginia Valian of Chapter one in Why Aren’t More Women In Science talks about whether women are truly less capable and talented than men. She brings up theories, social schema, and statistics to analyze why men ar…

Being a professional, career-driven woman in today’s society comes with a enormous set of challenges that our male counterparts never have to face. Women and men don’t even start out the race to the top on the same track; it seems that wom…

 
                                                  
Writer Virginia Valian of Chapter one in Why Aren’t More Women In Science talks about whether women are truly less capable and talented than men. She brings up theori…

Women rarely make it to the top of the career ladder. Far fewer women seek PhD’s in science compared to men not because they are not capable, but because both men and women underrate women’s abilities to succeed in a professional setting. Societal…

Virginia Valian probes the question of why aren’t more women in science through her essay Women at the Top in Science – And Elsewhere. She opens by explaining the misconception that there is not simply a lack of women at the top of the natural …