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A current catalog for an optics company has caused a stir by featuring a woman in a tight red skirt on the cover. Which is frustrating that a vendor in a career field which has some pretty serious issues with gender come to light over the last few years should know better.
February 26, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Hi, I came over to your blog from Pandagon and noticed that you’re the second person I’ve seen linking to that Edmund catalog thread (”Allyson” from that thread is an old online acquaintance of mine). It struck me how in that thread and the “How to blow Larry Summers’ mind” discussion at Pandagon, there were a number of folks struggling mightily to misunderstand what the issue was.
February 27, 2007 at 10:47 am
Welcome, it’s nice to know that someone is looking at this.
I had to bail out of that discussion because there is just too much out there on bias even in early science education.
February 27, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Just wanted to clarify that the catalog isn’t from Edmund Scientific, but Edmund Optics. The two companies split in 2000 and Edmund Scientific is now owned by Science Kit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Scientific_Corporation
http://scientificsonline.com/