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Category Archives: Equality
Unconscious Bias and the Impact on Women entering Science
This is text of the talk I gave at the Howthelightgetsin Festival at Hay at the weekend. The talk was misleadingly entitled ‘Saving Science’ by the organisers, trailed as how women can ‘save’ science, but it is really about how … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Project Implicit, role models, stereotype threat, Unconscious bias
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I can hear you’re getting emotional
In the comments for my last post, J0ns1m0ns remarked that he thought the issue of mode of speaking at committee meetings was perhaps a bit of a red herring, but I fear inappropriate remarks and behaviour persist and shouldn’t, indeed … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged empowerment, inappropriate behaviour, sexism
38 Comments
Progress at MIT
This week saw the publication of a report from MIT entitled: A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011. This is a follow up report to an earlier ground-breaking report … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged committee work, mentor, MIT, positive discrimination, stereotyping, women
8 Comments
Remembering the Women
This week Yasmin Alibahi-Brown wrote a piece in the Independent entitled ‘This is still a man’s world’ She said At every level, still, even in the West, women are invisible, neglected, kept down, slighted, patronised, objectified, denied and demeaned in … Continue reading
