Links: Women's work

Stop Hugging Your Postdocs—and Learn to Start Conversations That Prevent Harassment by Karen Stubaus.

Now instead of simply asking, “What sanctions do you impose?” many of us working on this problem are asking, “How do you create a climate where faculty understand what behaviors are unacceptable?” as well as “How can an academic community effectively hold its members accountable for sexual harassment?”

Hidden Curriculum: An Image Holder of Engineering by Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, an associate professor and associate chair for research and graduate studies in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida.

Hidden curriculum represents messages that are unrecognized, unacknowledged, unchallenged, or unchanged over time (Villanueva et al. 2018, 2020). An example of an HC message in engineering is its emphasis on technological innovation without considering sociotechnical implications (Villanueva et al. 2020). Another example is required access to resources for entry to engineering programs: affluent school districts are more likely to offer advanced placement courses, SAT preparation, and pre-engineering curriculum than poorer school districts.
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The public face of engineering should not be only a façade of inclusion. Rather, it must recognize and permanently remove negative hidden curriculum. It is only then that engineering can create a new image, one where everyone is equitably welcomed, valued, invested in, and sustained for generations to come.

Secret ancestral codes: 12 main symbols in Ukrainian embroidery, translated by Christine Chraibi. Gorgeous photos of Ukrainian embroidery with theories about the symbolism of common motifs.