The New Science of Sex and Gender by the Scientific American Editors
Vital research is starting to challenge long-standing assumptions about gender identity and biological sex, such as work that indicates the brain is a "mosaic" of traits rather than a "male" and "female" brain.
In my research to help form a coherent story for a #mesoamerica web series, #gender and #lgbtq is one of the biggest hurdles because #history and modern perspectives just don't match.
If I took Sigal's interpretation in the #book "the flower and scorpion", if someone asks me if there are LGBT characters I don't really have an answer as they did not call themselves straight, gay, or bisexual no matter who they had sex with. They did have a word for trans though.
If I took interpretations that did share modern ideas of #gender and #LGBTQ which show up the most in pop #history that opens new problems. These usually apply Christian views onto Nahua culture, completely replacing with the personal views of who is usually a Spanish priest.
This creates even more problems, as these interpretations often apply negative views onto gods and some even try to link some goddesses with the Christian Satan or succubi. Blatant misogyny.
"The process of nation building cannot be limited to only expanding working hours, but it has to focus on improving work conditions and pushing for norms that are inclusive and not blind to socio-cultural realities of contexts."
"... to be able to work 70 hours a week, can be a privilege and is reserved for a particular population who does not have to face the realities of a gendered life with defined roles or the pressures of socio-cultural norms. To assume that ‘work’ is only in an office, further assumes that “working life” is limited to hours recorded in an office timesheet, and which does not recognise the other forms of ‘productive’ work that women have to perform daily..."
New research provides insight into parental-child estrangement in the U.S., describes differences by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality, and discusses implications. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37304343
In keeping with our back-to-school theme this week, here we have an 8th-grade classroom at St. Veronica's school with 40 students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine as a math tool, 1955.
Two of the Women Who Programmed the ENIAC, Penn, 1946.
Iconic photograph of Betty Jean Jennings (left) at edge of photo inserts a deck of cards containing initial data on which the ENIAC will operate, while Frances Bilas (right) removes a set of cards representing the result of the proceeding computation.
@JustCodeCulture@histodons Are there any photos from later decades with women #SysAdmin at university computing facilities? Particularly before the mid-80s gender reorientation in #ComputerScience recruiting strategies.
"I'm a GAMP, and it's not a writer's cramp that makes me wanna be amp about it—I'm a straight champ who don't need a Virgin Mary bigot or a lick-spigot vamp to question my mastodon feed, or my literary, noumenon handstamp."—Max R. J. Ovbi
It is the most comprehensive volume to date, engaging with the intersections between gender and affect studies. A global and interdisciplinary range of contributors articulate the connections (and disconnections) between gender, sexuality, and affect in a range of geographical and historical contexts.
Excellent article by Luba Kassova on
gender imbalance & bias in AI.
"From analysing data and conversations with experts, I realise that, whether as developers, news editors or AI experts, women are largely absent from the AI world."
Great news that the radical feminist/queer journal 'Urania,' in circulation between 1916 and 1940, has now been digitised by LSE Library. Still, going to read the original copies earlier this year was a wonderful, if somewhat dizzying, research experience . . . 📚 😵
hello library uni folk! please give @heatherdawson a follow, who has recently joined Mastodon. Heather is a super knowledgeable academic support librarian at the LSE
"By combining innovative methods in economic history with an economic approach, Goldin has demonstrated that several different factors have historically influenced – and still influence – the supply of and demand for female labour. ... To achieve these insights, Goldin looked back over two hundred years."