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Thinking about Everyone’s Health
My last post dealt with an almost trivial – although symptomatic – issue of everyday sexism. This one deals with something of rather larger magnitude, but one that is much lower beneath the radar than it warrants: health, and health … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Research
Tagged gender, Londa Schiebinger, MRC, research design, Wellcome
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Masquerading Amongst the Literati
Things did not get off to a good start as I travelled to Hay-on-Wye this week. I arrived at Hereford railway station to be greeted by – nothing. No sign of the car meant to be picking me up to … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Equality, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged audiences, gender, Hay Festival, Lego
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Saying What You Mean to Say
Some years ago I came across a psychology paper which suggested that letters of reference are subtly (or even not-so-subtly) gendered. I had never thought about it before, but it made me think much harder about the adjectives and roles … Continue reading
Innovating with Sex and Gender in Mind
If you are designing seat-belts, who do you design them for? Or if teaching aspiring doctors the symptoms of heart disease and the presentation of heart attacks, whose symptoms do you describe? Clearly the correct answer to both questions should … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged design, gender, Londa Schiebinger, seatbelts, sex
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Breakfast with Evelyn Fox Keller (Science and Gender Part II)
The second half of the meeting in Austria on Science and Gender gave me a very different impression, both of the topic and the situation in Austria, than I had garnered from the first 24 hours described in my previous … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Austrian science, Evelyn Fox Keller, gender, macho
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