December 2011
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52 Things You Can Do For Transgender Equality →
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Good news and bad news on alcohol - The Washington... →
This article discusses breast cancer risk and alcohol consumption. It discusses that women who drink increase their risk for breast cancer but that women who drink red wine reduce their risk for heart disease. In the end, heart disease kills more women than breast cancer.
The article goes on to talk about the beneficial health effects of resveratrol. However, this study does not use a matched...
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Carol J. Scott, M.D.: Transform Breast Cancer... →
This popular news article mirrors some of the ideas expressed in the paper Cancer Butch by S. Lochlann Jain. Jain feels that cancer in the United States, especially breast cancer, is “a retrieval of affect and death and illness in the context of profit.”
In this popular news article article, Dr. Carol Scott encourages people to help a cancer survivor rather than donating money to pink...
November 2011
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Forbes Most Powerful People List: Women Take Only... →
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70% of anti-LGBTQ murder victims are people of... →
atheistfags:
Very disturbing facts here, guys. Please read and share.
Six Thoughts About Misogyny And Popular Culture →
1. Just because women buy misogynistic products, or sleep with artists of misogynistic products, does not mean that those products don’t express misogyny.
2. Some women behave badly. That doesn’t mean that you can extrapolate rules about society from their behavior, or because you’ve been wronged, that you have a right to judge the behavior of the many by the actions of the few.
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WatchThe Men Behind The War On Women
This video talks about the religious men who are behind the war on women including denying access to reproductive health, contraception, abortion and in some cases even vasectomy in married men who don’t want to impregnate their wives.
We constantly hear about the “Big 4” issues in American Politics - gay marriage, reproductive rights,...
October 2011
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Women making slow, sure strides in science, math -... →
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Michelle Obama stresses importance of girls... →
Proof that women are tougher than men -... →
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Women in science? Universities don't make the... →
Despite years of trying to improve the number of women undergraduates in science and engineering, a new study shows most universities are failing. Not only are women lagging behind their male classmates, efforts to close the gap too often focus on students instead of faculty and institutional structures.
Eleven Women Scientists Announced as Winners of... →
Outstanding young biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians recognized across the developing world
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National Science Foundation changes workplace to... →
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will give researchers more workplace flexibility in a move to boost women’s role in the sciences, the White House said on Monday.
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September 2011
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Measurement Lab 2
For this lab activity, you will repeat the experiment that you conducted last week but using someone else. First, ask a friend or family member to participate. Do the following and write your answers to these questions in your science journal:
1) How did you find your ‘human subject’? Do not give their name but describe their relationship to you.
I asked one of my classmates from WMNST 382...
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Measurement Lab 1
1. I chose the length of my arm from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger.
2. I hypothesize that they will vary slightly in length. Comparing my arms to my feet, I have one foot that is noticeably larger than the other when I buy shoes. If my feet are different sizes, perhaps my arms are too?
3. I used a tape measure – like the kind from Home Depot not the kind to measure clothes. ...
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Breaking the Speed of Light →
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Mukhtaran Bibi →
Interesting Womens’ Rights advocate from Pakistan. She was a victim of gang rape who not only survived but took legal action against her attackers.
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Fatherhood depletes testosterone, study finds -... →
This article is related to class discussion on gender roles (9/8), gender being a social construct (9/13) and issues relating to LGBTQ identities as discussed in our introductory paper.
The study addressed in this article suggests that “becoming a father may make you less of a man” by decreasing testosterone levels but goes on to indicate that “men are evolutionary wired to help...
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Increase in diabetes: ‘A public health emergency... →
This article is related to class discussion on 9/13 regarding women, race and prevalence of disease. In class we discussed that blacks and black women in particular are more likely to get diseases, have diseases untreated, suffer major complications from disease and die from disease when compared to whites.
This is due to a combination of:
Poverty
Discrimination
Ignorance resulting from...