Welcome to the World of Gender
From time to time researchers go to congresses and conferences where they meet with colleagues from their field of research (although I am not sure if that is auditing/accounting or gender for me). Researchers go to such meetings to present to one another the interesting (and not so interesting) things they have discovered (or things they think they might have found), and (not in the least) for social networking (a necessity in the modern scientific world of 'publish or perish').
The past weeks I have been at two of such conferences (the '32nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association' and the 'Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association') were I presented a paper with the compelling and slightly provocative title "Are Female Auditors Still Women?"
I can imagine that such a title intrigues you and evokes a feeling of 'tell me more about it' (and I promise you I certainly will!). The research has to go on however; putting it on hold in order to be able to attain 'important' congresses is possible (and even necessary), but afterwards lost time has to be made up for. So, I have much to do at the moment you could say (new deadlines approaching at dazzling speed already).
Nevertheless, from the First of June onwards you may expect regular blogging from me. So I hope to see you all (so to speak) very soon!
I am looking foward to your blog. If you read some German, please take a look on my blog "Geschlechtsverwirrung" on the brainlogs-page http://www.brainlogs.de/...g/geschlechtsverwirrung
I write about "gender Studies" (which I critisize as being for the most part a questionable ideology) and generally about sex as an object of the sciences and humanities.
Science, Courage and ironic Humour - it seems that your scilog is about to become a very interesting one! I am looking forward to the next posts!
And in the future, I plan to post some findings about the gender differences in religious behavior on biology of religion! These are among the oldest riddles in religious studies - now, we are approaching new (and surprising) explanations based on evolutionary biology! I hope you'll enjoy them! :-)
Best wishes from a Scilog-Neigbour!
Michael
Thank you both for the encouraging comments – I hope I can live up to expectations.
Ferdinand, my German is not very good, but I will certainly try to read some of it because it sounds very interesting.
Michael, looking forward to read more about it!
My first real blog post will be about the difference between sex and gender (I will post it sometime this week or next week). After that, the first posts will probably be about sex/gender differences in math and cognition.
It's hard not to involve sexism in some of our daily activities...
Sexism is not that common in today's society.
Dear Claus Zorin,
You're of course entitled to your opinion, but unfortunately sexism remains to be a very real and persistent problem (see for example the work by Janet K. Swim). Women encounter sexism almost on a daily basis. Women experience, for example, sexual objectivation once or twice a week (on average).