Stop Problematizing Academic Jargon | Slate | January 2017 It’s easy to mock specialized vocabulary. In these anti-intellectual times, we need it more than ever.
0403, 2017
0610, 2016
White House women want to be in the room where it happens | Washington Post | September 2016 When President Obama took office, two-thirds of his top aides were men. Women complained of having to elbow their way into important meetings. And when they got in, their voices were sometimes ignored. So female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called
0610, 2016
White House women want to be in the room where it happens | Washington Post | September 2016 When President Obama took office, two-thirds of his top aides were men. Women complained of having to elbow their way into important meetings. And when they got in, their voices were sometimes ignored. So female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called
2708, 2016
Hillary Clinton talks more like a man than she used to | Washington Post | August 2016 In general, women tend to use pronouns (you, theirs), and especially first-person singular pronouns (I, me), more frequently than men. They also use common verbs and auxiliary verbs (is, has, be, go), social (friend, talk), emotional (relieved, safe, kind), cognitive (think, because), and
2705, 2016
Even Female Supreme Court Justices Get Interrupted a Lot by Men | Mother Jones | May 2016 Men on the court spent a lot of time interrupting the two youngest female justices, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor was interrupted 57 times during arguments, while Kagan got cut off 50 times. The next most-interrupted person on the list was Justice
1705, 2016
Why Criticism Is So Tough To Swallow (And How To Make It Go Down Easier) | Fast Company via Lifehacker | April 2016 At any given time, brains are subconsciously scanning the world around us for dangers to defend against—ready to launch a fight, flight, or freeze response that will protect us from predators or poisons. But the brain doesn’t
0705, 2016
Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say | The Guardian | May 2016 I don’t want to read any more op-eds about what women should or should not say. Let’s just make things easier for everyone by laying down some ground rules that put a stop to the confusion: a Dictionary of WomanSpeak