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This guest post by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz was adapted from a comment he wrote on a Facebook post of mine sharing this essay . While ge...

Today I spoke with a Computer Science professor who is finishing a semester of teaching a notoriously challenging advanced undergraduate co...

The author, wearing some clothes. A few years ago, we organized a professional wardrobe event (video here ) as part of one of our Grad...

Wearing the Computer Science "uniform." I first became aware of the problem when I took a female faculty interview candidate...

People have been asking about the books I mentioned during last Friday's Challenging Technical Privilege Symposium at MIT. (The sympos...

The "mansplaining" meme, which captures the phenomenon of men being patronizing to women in conversation, is trending on the inte...

Last week, former State Department director Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic piece "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" s...

Graduate Women at MIT now has a new blogging initiative. If you have been following my blog to hear about gender/women in science issues, ...

A few weeks ago, the MIT Tech ran an opinion piece "It's good to be king" ("Innate ability may explain gender gaps"...

My main non-research interest at MIT has been Graduate Women at MIT , which I helped found in fall 2009. Last year I was involved with esta...

I have been organizing the Graduate Women @ MIT Empowerment Conference, happening Wednesday-Friday this week. Events include a keynote by C...

One week away and I've collected so many articles about women in my inbox! Women in Science Gender stop-gaps - a Nature article about ...

April 22-24 I was in Seattle for the Computing Research Association's Grad Cohort for Women . For the last ten years, the CRA has annua...

I'm excited for Dr. Freada Klein's keynote talk for the Graduate Women at MIT spring kick-off . Description of the talk, "The...

Thanks to Clarissa for sending this. A recent NY Times article Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley discusses the (sometimes surprisingly ove...

Thanks to Jie Tang for sending this. Economists Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt have a 2009 study, "An Empirical Analysis of the Gender ...

I was recently interviewed for this Harvard Crimson article about the dearth of female undergraduates concentrating in computer science at ...

My friend Rishabh's dreams have come true. Computer engineer Barbie is here by popular vote. Mattel even worked with the Society of W...

I have been involved in starting Graduate Women at MIT , an institute-wide women's group. We got some press in the MIT Tech today , whi...

I'm really amused by this Barbie vote for the next Barbie: will she be an environmentalist, surgeon, architect, news anchor, or compute...