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Sex, Gender, Research and Fairness
It is a daily matter to look around a typical laboratory and note the imbalance of the sexes in different roles. In a lab using animals, there may be a fair number of female technicians, but the PI is more … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Funding, Women in Science
Tagged cell-lines, ERC, Gendered Innovations, Londa Schiebinger, machine learning, statistics
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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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Women in Science: Why Can’t this Problem be Fixed?
The newspapers these days run almost daily stories about sexism and women being disadvantaged in one way or another (plus the occasional response that it is men that are being hit hardest by current circumstances). For women in STEM the … 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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Skeletons and Unconscious Bias
As scientists we like to believe that we seek and interpret evidence impartially. That has been the accepted position for generations. The reality is of course that we are sometimes influenced, unconsciously or otherwise, by received opinion, ‘experts’ or other … Continue reading
