Comments on: For A Good Time On The InterTubes: Women Scientists-in-Binders [Self Aggrandizement Alert] http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/for-a-good-time-on-the-intertubes-women-scientists-in-binders-self-aggrandizement-alert/ science and the public square -- by thomas levenson Sun, 19 May 2013 17:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kaleberg http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/for-a-good-time-on-the-intertubes-women-scientists-in-binders-self-aggrandizement-alert/#comment-10734 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:02:49 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5770#comment-10734 MIT has a long history of women getting out and doing the research, and often finding the institute taking action. A friend of mine back in the 70s documented the dearth of women’s rest rooms at MIT, producing not just a dry statistical document, but a rather enlightening slide show. (OK, it was funny the way she told it.) In response, MIT converted a good number of men’s rooms into women’s rooms.

As usual with so many important changes, the new generation tends not to recognize the changes. I just assumed the 5th floor women’s room in building 9 had always been for women until late one evening a member of the janitorial staff insisted I check it out for myself as he had never seen a women’s room with “pisspots” before and had to share this remarkable discovery with whomever was around.

]]> By: Isis the Scientist http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/for-a-good-time-on-the-intertubes-women-scientists-in-binders-self-aggrandizement-alert/#comment-10672 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:18:14 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5770#comment-10672 How am I not a distinguished guest?!?!!

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