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Category Archives: Women in Science
Why Side-line the Women?
‘I bumped into my supervisor on the stairs when I was with X [my fellow postdoc]. I might as well have been invisible, he didn’t address a word to me. It really hurt.’ So wrote a young female postdoc during … Continue reading
Dressing for Success?
Women’s attire is so often the focus of media attention. I expect the relative merits of Andrea Leadsom’s and Theresa May’s wardrobes will be dissected as front page news for weeks, along with Angela Eagle’s. Focus on the importance of … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged job interviews, professionalism, suits
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In Memoriam
In Memoriam A few weeks ago I was reading Anne Marie Slaughter’s book Unfinished Business. This book builds on an Atlantic article she wrote about why she quit working for Hilary Clinton to return to engage more fully in her … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Anne Marie Slaughter, mothers, Nigel Clarke
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The Competitive Streak in Academia
Does being competitive necessarily mean foregoing kindness? In essence this was the question posed to Uta Frith at the end of her public conversation with me last week (you can hear the whole conversation here). Uta didn’t give a completely … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Carol Robinson, impact factor, Mary Beard, Meaning of Success, Uta Frith
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Unravelling Grant Success Rates by Gender
I first realised that the problems I was facing might just, possibly, not be down to my own shortcomings when I read the 1999 MIT report on the Status of Women. For the first time it occurred to me that … Continue reading
