{"id":881,"date":"2006-06-21T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/06\/21\/the-girl-can-do-some-serious-damage\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T20:07:01","slug":"the-girl-can-do-some-serious-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/the-girl-can-do-some-serious-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"The girl can do some serious damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash:  gender equality in science not yet quite achieved.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joolya from <a href=\"http:\/\/joolya.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/notable-absences.html\">Naked Under My Lab Coat<\/a> notes how the &#8220;Dr.&#8221; honorific seems to mysteriously disappear when it&#8217;s attached to a woman&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2006\/06\/nerds_and_the_dating_game.php\">Dr. Free-Ride<\/a>, with an assist from <a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/2006\/06\/20\/pretty-girls-arent-good-providers\/\">Pandagon<\/a>, suggests that women can be nerds, too.<\/li>\n<li>Nerds or not, though, I&#8217;d suggest treating them with politeness.  Otherwise they will <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2006\/06\/science_hits_th.html\">kick your ass<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash: gender equality in science not yet quite achieved. Joolya from Naked Under My Lab Coat notes how the &#8220;Dr.&#8221; honorific seems to mysteriously disappear when it&#8217;s attached to a woman&#8217;s name. Dr. Free-Ride, with an assist from Pandagon, suggests that women can be nerds, too. Nerds or not, though, I&#8217;d suggest treating them with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-in-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}