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Category Archives: Women in Science
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
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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
Progression and Backlash
One of the blogs that I try to read regularly – beyond my local microcosm of Occam’s Typewriter – is that of FemaleScienceProfessor, also known as FSP for short . You can guess I would feel a sense of shared … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged affirmative action, maternity leave, minority, positive action, tenure clock, tenure track
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Unwritten Rules
Last week I had a meeting with a professorial colleague, a woman from a Humanities Department who is heading up a working group within the university. We were discussing how to ensure she got the information she needed and I … Continue reading
Blushes and Bluster
Last week I participated in the Eureka Live debate on Women in Science at the Wellcome Collection in London. My fellow panellist Ottoline Leyser, spoke passionately in favour of being positive. (Ottoline, you may recall, is the author of that … Continue reading
