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Levelling the Playing Field
This article has been published in the November issue of Physics World. The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE),which has been used to measure the quality of UK research for more than 20 years, has now morphed into the equally clunky sounding … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Research, Women in Science
Tagged consultation, HEFCE, maternity leave, outputs, REF
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Why Should She Do it All?
My recent article in the THE about cultural expectations being imposed on young girls (which also appeared as a post here) got a mixed reception in the online comments. Several seemed to have failed to grasp the central point that … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Allison Pearson, children, maternity leave, Ottoline Leyser
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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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The Drawbacks of the Deficit Model
Following on from my recent post, and my remarks about not being a shrinking violet, let me take up the theme of the ‘deficit model’ discussed in a recent post by my erstwhile colleague and WiSETI project officer Esther Haines … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science, Women's Issues
Tagged career breaks, deficit model, maternity leave, positive action
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