Glencora Borradaile

Take your comment and change any gendered words from male to female and ask yourself “Would I say this to or about a man in the same situation?” For example: “This office is a lot prettier than when I was here” [to a male graduate student, while thumbing the female grad student hard at work] [...]

Applications for attendance at the Women in Theory workshop are due February 29. The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and undergraduate students in the area of theory of computer science. The workshop will feature technical talks and tutorials by senior and junior women in the field, as well as social events [...]

If I didn’t see the students sitting in the lecture room while I taught and only knew who I was teaching to by the students who speak to me after class, in the hallways or in my office hours, I would think the gender ratio was at least balanced in computer science. Overwhelmingly, one-on-one, my [...]

I was asked a question a few months ago: Do women have an advantage in our field? There was a time when I would have chirped ‘NO!’ and stormed off.  That time might not have been too long ago.  But it is an interesting question, perhaps because it is so ill-defined.  What does advantage mean? [...]

As seen at the Women’s Center on campus at Oregon State University (in the spirit of … is powered by Orange).

Many blogs have already piped up on the THE article on the deadly sins of academia (thanks to Gordon Wilfong for first directing me to it).  The article isn’t entirely at fault and meant to be in good fun.  The section on Lust, though, by Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham contains such gems that [...]

Bill Gasarch asked me to make a statement about my blog and in responding to him, I realized I might as well post it here. This blog will likely be YATB (yet another theory blog) – hopefully I will have something new and interesting to say.  I’d been subscribing to the Theory of Computing Blog [...]