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Category Archives: Equality
To Confront or Not to Confront
Just over a year ago I pressed the ‘publish’ button on a post with some trepidation. I felt I was exposing some inner anxieties that maybe were better not exposed. Your collective response to the post in question ‘I can … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged complaints, inappropriate behaviour, misogyny
10 Comments
10 Things You Should Know about Election to the Royal Society
There has been much consternation today in the Twittersphere – and no doubt elsewhere too – about the fact that there were only two women this year in the list of 44 new Fellows elected to the Royal Society. It … Continue reading
Why We Need to Start Young
Recently the Royal Society of Edinburgh released its report looking at the position of women in STEM in Scotland and what ought to be done by their Government; it also looked more broadly at the situation across the UK. The … Continue reading
Dangerous Assumptions
Last week I was put in touch with a reporter from my local newspaper, the Cambridge News, who was writing a story about the University’s Annual Report. They seemed concerned about the lack of women academic staff (and ethnic minorities) … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Ceci and WIlliams, first impressions, Unconscious bias, Wenneras and Wold
27 Comments
That Dratted Tenure Clock
Almost exactly a year ago I posted a blogpost on the back of wading through papers for a promotion panel. I’m buried in the paperwork again this year, but I’d like to put a very different emphasis on what I … Continue reading
