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Category Archives: Women in Science
Leadership, Management and Role Models
This week I participated in a conversation on leadership issues in front of an audience of women leaders from the Museum world. The conversation, facilitated/chaired by Vivienne Parry, was with Professor Anne Johnson, an epidemiologist from UCL whom I had … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged career paths, leader, role model, Vivienne Parry
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Jobsworthiness and Horror Stories in Equality
The policeman at the centre of ‘Gategate’, who may or may not have been called a pleb by the Conservative Chief Whip, has been called in the press a ‘jobsworth’, a term certainly not complimentary even if not in the … Continue reading
Get a Wife!
This useful phrase seems to be the advice proffered by one physicist – male of course – to questions about how to succeed in an academic career. It says a lot about what may go wrong for women also trying … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged academic couples, career progression, childcare, marriage, partner
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I Am Not A Bimbo
Not so long ago I read a distressed ‘rant’ about being catcalled in London, from a woman who seemed persistently to be subjected to it – and worse. Alice voiced her anger and her misery in detail and provoked a … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged demeaning, dinner conversation, patronising, social interactions
16 Comments
Work-Life Balance for Whom?
Can women ‘have it all’ (i.e. have a family as well as a career) is a question frequently asked, and one Sally Feldman referred to in her article in last week’s Times Higher Education. Although the sub-title for her article … Continue reading
