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Category Archives: Women in Science
Steamboat Ladies
The University of Cambridge has not had a very good week or two in the media. I’m not going to enter that fray given how much has already been written and I’m a long way away from the details of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Women in Science
Tagged BA, degrees, Trinity College Dublin, University of Cambridge
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How did we manage before the Internet?
If you’ve read George Eliot’s Middlemarch (the Guardian’s recent choice as the best novel in the English language), you will recognize the problem Mr Casaubon faced in trying to write his magnum opus, relying on multiple books in a range … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Aspasia, Hildegard of Bingen, HJ Mozans, JA Zahm
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Victims and Perpetrators
Some readers may have noticed in the media, recent (separate) reports that two Fellows of Kings College, Cambridge, have resigned/been stripped of their fellowship due to allegations of harassment and misconduct. I haven’t seen any particular details about the accusations, … Continue reading
Women in Tech: A Call for Action
283 years! That was the figure the DSIT Secretary of State stated would be the length of time it would take, at current rates of progress, for women to make up 50% of the Tech workforce at a reception at … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Anne-Marie Imafidon, computing, femtech, Liz Kendall
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Equity for Women Around the World
It is always good to be stretched beyond one’s own comfort zone, even if by definition it is an uncomfortable thing to do. Recently, I found myself stepping up to the podium to talk following four successive philosophers, whose take … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Women in Science
Tagged UNICEF, Wendy Hall, Women in Tech
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