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Category Archives: Women in Science
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
11 Comments
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
Academic Life and Children: Fitting it All In
I have finally got around to finishing a book I started months ago called Opting Out – Why women really quit careers and head home. Written by Pamela Stone in 2007 it analyses the response of her interviews with 50+ … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science, Women's Issues
Tagged academia, flexible working, Pamela Stone, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, work-life balance
23 Comments
On Passion
In the past few weeks there have been a number of articles commenting on the lack of women fronting up science on TV. First there was Jenny Rohn writing on ‘In which I Contemplate the Ranks of the Invisible’, quickly … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged Brian Cox, science on TV, women on TV
31 Comments
