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Category Archives: Women in Science
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
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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
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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
Some Animals are More Equal than Others
This week I attended the Royal Society’s Diversity Day. As everyone remarked, the audience was indeed remarkably diverse. Signing of the talks for the hard-of-hearing was available and the standard white male was in (relatively) short supply both on the … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged committees, George Orwell, Unconscious bias
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Harassment Must be Challenged
In some senses I am pleased to see increasing attention being given to the topic of sexual harassment in our universities. It would be good if such attention was unnecessary, but regrettably there is no point pretending that that is … Continue reading
