We have to step up as women and take the lead.” -Beyoncé
“We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. In this post, Gina has thoughts on how to move forward (with some additions from me at the end). The responses to her initial tweet were overwhelming, and her original post generated quite a lot of discussion (some of it, unfortunately, sexist). In that post, she summarized (and categorized) the variety of sexist comments that occur regularly in academia.
Intro from Meghan: This is the follow up to Gina Baucom’s guest post last week on her experience asking on twitter about sexist comments made about women in academia.
