Editor’s note: This is an ACTION ALERT for our readers. Please read this post on what Dr. Kvavik calls SOB-ing, and then think about how we can stop the SOB-ing of Kirsten Gillibrand that is going on right now. We need your ideas and your help to stop this thing in its tracks!
What is it about Sen. Gillibrand? What do Sen. Gillibrand, Gov. Palin, and Secretary of State Clinton have in common? Why, they’ve all been SOBed!
The press and mainstream media have Simplified, Objectified, and …

While it is a truism that women are way under-represented in science, we need more data and reasons as to why this is so. On this inauguration day, Natalie Angier, a science writer for the New York Times, writes of optimism In ‘Geek Chic’ and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science. Angier deserves applause for writing about this issue, as it is time to attract more women into science and keep them there: “Researchers who have long promoted the cause of women in science view the incoming …