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STEM - The Truth

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Amity Shales - Just Say No (why does she have a job? Really?)

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Shes got an article up on Bloomberg where she basically sez. " If your workplace discriminates, its basically being 'creative' and 'promoting growth '" Check out these gems Over the years, creative rebels have often behaved poorly in their creative workplaces. Do most of us approve? Hardly. Nobody likes, say, the way the great creator of   Apple Inc. (AAPL) , Steve Jobs , treated many colleagues. Riiight.  So if Apple instituted a policy saying " Front-office jobs to be done only by the Swedish Bikini Team ", thats OK right?  They're just being "creative rebels"? Her action may reduce the very kind of access she enjoyed for those who followed her. Setting Kleiner Perkins aside, consider the rest of the sector. Human-resources specialists aren’t idiots. They see how much Pao, still merely alleging, is costing a firm such as Kleiner Perkins: time, image and distraction from its main work, finding value. Other businesses will work...

The Avengers writers - and Female Characters (a Visualization))

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From the incredible Jer on blog.blprnt , we get this heat-map showing the prevalence of female characters on The Avengers overlayed w/ the writers that wrote them. (click to embiggen like mad). 2010 seems to be a good year thus far...