-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Pages
Meta
Twitter
Category Archives: Women in Science
Mentoring Matters, but for Whom?
In response to my recent post on New Year Frustrations, I received a tweet complaining that in this particular person’s university female postdocs contractually could not receive mentoring. That statement can be read in two ways: either that female postdocs … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Women in Science
Tagged advice, appraisal, early career researchers, postdocs
3 Comments
New Year Frustrations
I spent some of my time off around New Year attempting to start as I mean to go on by tidying my ‘home office’. In the run-up to Christmas, as exhaustion took over and time ran out, I had increasingly … Continue reading
The History of Keeping the Damned Women Out
It is easy to forget that what is your daily life today is tomorrow’s history: history is not just about the great white men long dead and buried. A talk I attended a few weeks ago vividly brought this to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Churchill College, coeducation, Nancy Malkiel, Princeton
2 Comments
Professional Bodies in the Diversity Frame
All male invited speakers at conferences or a senior leadership team that contains not a single woman are common across the employment landscape. In the physical sciences and engineering the problem is particularly acute because the numbers of women who … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Royal Academy of Engineering, Science Council
1 Comment
Do You Want to be Described as Hard Working?
I visited Oxford this week to talk to the Women in Physics group, mainly made up of students and postdocs (not all of whom were women). Tea and excellent scones were provided to stimulate good discussion. I was duly grilled … Continue reading
