Quickies
Quickies: Discrimination in science, paying more to church-going foster parents, and inflammation treatment breakthrough
- Black and Latina women scientists sometimes mistaken for janitors – “…a new report on women of color in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, found that 100 percent of the 60 scientists interviewed reported experiencing bias and discrimination.
- Here’s what it’s like for a woman to send a job rejection to a man – “And of course, there was one older, white, academic man who felt the need to tell us that we are, “imperious little girls,” and that “we are not superior to [him].””
- Kansas lawmaker wants to pay more to church-going, home-schooling foster parents – “A Kansas lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would pay foster parents “substantially” more public money if they are a churchgoing “husband and wife team” who do not smoke or drink, do not send the child to public schools, and one of whom stays at home.” From Ray.
- Treatment of Alzheimer’s, arthritis, and MS could be improved by new discovery – “Scientists at the University of Queensland worked with an international team to develop a molecule that fights one of the main causes of inflammatory diseases, a breakthrough researchers say could lead to safer and cheaper treatments.” From Jack99.
