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Category Archives: Women in Science
Let’s Get Stereotypes out of Science Education
Women are from Venus, like making cupcakes, like bright colours – particularly pink – and need to be told at frequent intervals that ‘math is meant to be hard’. That seems to be the verdict you could cull from many … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged physics, stereotype threat, teachers
21 Comments
Raising Expectations: Funders Get Tough(ish)
About 18 months ago, Dame Sally Davies, the Government’s Chief Medical Officer, unilaterally raised the bar for Medical Schools wanting to apply to future rounds of funding through the Biomedical Research Centre scheme, demanding (in essence) that they obtain an … Continue reading
Just How Bad Is It?
It is easy to think that science is uniquely bad amongst the academic disciplines in the problems that some women may face. In the past few weeks I have visited various Universities to discuss some of the relevant issues and … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Athena Swan, Jenny Saul, philosophy, sexual harassment
16 Comments
To Blog or Not to Blog
The challenge of using social media as a way to overcome the frequent invisibility of women in science was at the heart of the recent #SoLo12 Women In Science session organised by Seirian Sumner and Nathalie Pettorelli (see the Storify … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged blogging, Good Thinking Society Science Blog Prize, social media, SoLo12
20 Comments
From Invisibility to Power
What can be done to render women in science less invisible? A few women may stand out from the crowd, both historically and at the present time, but the list of women scientists most people – by which I mean … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Nature, Royal Society, SpotOn London, Woman's Hour
17 Comments
