Three Things For Updating
Feb. 6th, 2011 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseBeing employed is awesome, but I welcomed the weekend with open arms and a silenced alarm clock. Failure to instantly master multiple new instruments, a new lab layout and organization system, as well as new protocols run on those machines, in that new-to-me lab, is disappointing, but a reasonable expectation. Tonight I'm adopting the attitude that, having run half of one experiment that didn't completely fail, I am doing adequately at my shiny-new contract job and can look forward to my second Monday on the job.
Not an impressive article, but impressive pictures of Jodhpur, India which is about the color of my house (see also wall color in background).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trolleypup, you may find this of interest.
Came across my desk: PhDs by gender and discipline. Notable is the fact women now proudly claim nearly one half of all doctorates awarded in the US, but not equally in all fields. According to the graph, less than 1 in 5 physics doctorates went to women in 2009, but women are over-represented in psychology and english lit. In my own focus, I bailed on chemistry (about 36% female) and biochemistry (~46%) for molecular biology (~56%). My reasons seemed personally compelling at the time, but now I wonder if this is a teachable moment about how institutionalized social expectations work.
Not an impressive article, but impressive pictures of Jodhpur, India which is about the color of my house (see also wall color in background).
trolleypup, you may find this of interest.Came across my desk: PhDs by gender and discipline. Notable is the fact women now proudly claim nearly one half of all doctorates awarded in the US, but not equally in all fields. According to the graph, less than 1 in 5 physics doctorates went to women in 2009, but women are over-represented in psychology and english lit. In my own focus, I bailed on chemistry (about 36% female) and biochemistry (~46%) for molecular biology (~56%). My reasons seemed personally compelling at the time, but now I wonder if this is a teachable moment about how institutionalized social expectations work.
