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 [...]
October 23, 2010
Women are not at an advantage in our field
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? [...]
November 30, 2009
Warm and fuzzy and orange all over
As seen at the Women’s Center on campus at Oregon State University (in the spirit of … is powered by Orange).
September 29, 2009
Feminism is still needed
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 [...]
September 14, 2009
Why blog?
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 [...]