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Category Archives: Women in Science
Progress at MIT
This week saw the publication of a report from MIT entitled: A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011. This is a follow up report to an earlier ground-breaking report … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged committee work, mentor, MIT, positive discrimination, stereotyping, women
8 Comments
Taking Flight (Pseudonymous or Not)
I have finally caught up with the debate at ScienceOnline2011 on ‘The Perils of Blogging as a Woman under a Real Name’ through watching the video of the session, recently put online. This was the debate that kick-started a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Women in Science
Tagged blogging, confidence, holding-back, Kate Clancy, Science Online 2011, Sunetra Gupta
19 Comments
Chinese Whispers, Truth and the Media
A couple of years ago, when I won the L’Oreal/UNESCO For Women in Science prize for Europe, L’Oreal asked me to prepare various bits of material for press releases and other publicity. Their initial brief press release mentioned both that … Continue reading
Do we want to ‘feminise’ science teaching?
This week two rather different (scholarly) articles about women/girls and science were brought to my notice. One, a study of 14 year old schoolchildren began ‘Girls are more interested in studying science if topics are presented in a female friendly … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Women in Science
Tagged girls, role models, stereotype threat, teaching material
11 Comments
Remembering the Women
This week Yasmin Alibahi-Brown wrote a piece in the Independent entitled ‘This is still a man’s world’ She said At every level, still, even in the West, women are invisible, neglected, kept down, slighted, patronised, objectified, denied and demeaned in … Continue reading
