{"id":5294,"date":"2017-06-12T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/?page_id=5294"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:08:37","slug":"just1action4wis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/just1action4wis\/","title":{"rendered":"Just1Action4WIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My call for action under the banner #Just1Action4WIS &#8211; which of these can you commit to? There should be something for everyone here, whatever their role: as academic, teacher, student, parent or simply a member of the public. (See also my original 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/2015\/06\/15\/what-next-after-tim-hunt-just1action4wis\/\">post<\/a> on the subject, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/occams-corner\/2015\/jun\/19\/just-one-action-for-women-in-science\">summary<\/a> on the Guardian pages.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call out bad behaviour whenever and wherever you see it \u2013 in committees or in the street. Don\u2019t leave women to be victimised;<\/li>\n<li>Encourage women to dare, to take risks;<\/li>\n<li>Act as a sponsor or mentor;<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t let team members get away with demeaning behaviour, objectifying women or acting to exclude anyone;<\/li>\n<li>Seek out and remove microinequities wherever you spot them;<\/li>\n<li>Refuse to serve on single sex panels or at conferences without an appropriate level of female invited speakers;<\/li>\n<li>Consider the imagery in your department and ensure it represents a diverse group of individuals;<\/li>\n<li>Consider the daily working environment to see if anything inappropriate is lurking. If so, do something about it.<\/li>\n<li>Demand\/require mandatory unconscious bias training, in particular for appointment and promotion panels;<\/li>\n<li>Call out teachers who tell girls they can\u2019t\/shouldn\u2019t do maths, physics etc;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let the bold (male or female) monopolise the conversation in the classroom or the apparatus in the laboratory, at the expense of the timid (female or male);<\/li>\n<li>Ask schools about their progression rates for girls into the traditionally male subjects at A level (or indeed, the traditionally female subjects for boys);<\/li>\n<li>Nominate women for prizes, fellowships etc;<\/li>\n<li>Tap women on the shoulder to encourage them to apply for opportunities they otherwise would be unaware of or feel they were not qualified for;<\/li>\n<li>Move the dialogue on from part-time working equates to \u2018isn\u2019t serious\u2019 to part-time working means balancing different demands;<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the importance of family (and even love) for men and women;<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to be a visible role model;<\/li>\n<li>Gather evidence, data and anecdote, to provide ammunition for management to change;<\/li>\n<li>Listen and act if a woman starts hinting there are problems, don\u2019t be dismissive because it makes you uncomfortable;<\/li>\n<li>Think broadly when asked to make suggestions of names for any position or role.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If every reader signed up to #just1action4WIS (or came up with another one to add to that list and acted upon it) that could make a significant contribution to changing the environment around women in science. Please make that pledge to do your part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My call for action under the banner #Just1Action4WIS &#8211; which of these can you commit to? There should be something for everyone here, whatever their role: as academic, teacher, student, parent or simply a member of the public. (See also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/just1action4wis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}