So, one of the strange but interesting findings from my 10th grade study was that the more important girls considered relationships, the more likely they were to go to college. However, the more important boys considered relationships, the LESS likely they were to go to college ( Read more... )

I'm getting ready to teach my summer course, which is called "The Achievement Gap in Higher Education," which is a 10 week look at who gets to go to college, what they get out of it, and why those things split on group differences ( Read more... )

I'm spending most of my energy right now working on getting a couple of articles out ( Read more... )

My (our - I am second author on the paper as it is about iron deficiency anemia and she is the head of that project) got accepted by Journal of Pediatrics. I am psyched. I'd include more exclamation points, but it is late and I have no energy for more posting, much less enthusiastic tossing about of punctuation. But, yeah me.

My teaching day is Wednesday. Since I commute 75-90 min one way, I try hard to not have to go in that often. That means that I (1) do a great deal of my work from home (emailing chapters back and forth, writing, running analyses, and a ton of email), and (2) I try to load up the days I do go in with all the things I can't do remotely. So, a ( Read more... )

I am switching gears from gender and access to careers (and the role of education) to different ways to model the impact of risk in the context of examining biological insult in child development. To whit ( Read more... )

So I interviewed my girl, who is 11, on this who gender-identity thing. For her, there are boy things and girl things and neutral things. Now, the tricky part ( Read more... )

- disclaimer - I am at the early mental stages of working this stuff out, so what I write here may not actually be what I think ( Read more... )

I am white. I don't usually think about it, but there it is. I am a white, privileged, heterosexual female person, and it is part of my person (happily not all of it. The reason I don't think about it much is that I don't have to - everyone around me is usually white, of my social class and intellectual background, and cross-gender-partnered ( ( Read more... )

Had a lovely 3 mile walk in perfect cool sunny weather. Now I am working through the details of revising my analysis of multiple risk (adding in four more risk factors, rerunning the threshold analysis) and framing the outline of the article so that I can do it in bits. It is the smallest unit I can think of that I can actually get done. I've ( Read more... )