Sitting in Glass Houses
Sitting in Glass Houses; drinking tea and planning World Domination (aka Thesis Completion). by SM Morgan. I am at that stage of the PhD. Contemplating completion and what the heck comes after. There...
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Why stereotyping scientists matters
I’m always interested to find out what people think I do for a living. No one has ever said scientist. It’s usually something in the arts or fashion*. You know, creative industries. I’m guessing it’s...
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Where do all the women go?
This weekend is International Women’s Day and the theme this year is Inspiring Change. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, just 30% of science researchers are women. They have produced a...
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Where do all the women go – revisited
I’ve had a go at making my first infographic, of the data from the mBio paper about women speakers at American Society of Microbiology meetings (1). I used Piktochart. Picture below and interactive...
View ArticleWhy Women Don't Choose Science & Engineering Careers
I just found this very clever clip which I think demonstrates one of the reasons why we don’t have more women in engineering & the sciences. The post Why Women Don't Choose Science &...
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Misogyny in science
I had to wait until fourth form for my first lesson about feminism. I went to an all-boys school in provincial New Zealand, where classes on contemporary political issues were few and far between. So I...
View ArticleThe sexism of the circus
Emma Timewell Earlier this month, I went to see Cirque du Soleil’s Totem show, currently doing a month’s run in Auckland on its way around the world. It was, as ever, an amazing show, but one act...
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Sexism, shirts, Sutton and saying goodbye
Sexism is rife in academia and leads to many leaving academic careers. Last week I worked my last day as an academic at Lincoln University, the disestablishment of my position in the protracted...
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) with the goal of inspiring the next generation of budding women...
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Women in science – yesterday, today and tomorrow
February 11th marked the first ever International Day of Women and Girls in Science, as declared by the UN. These are my reflections on women in science drafted the day after this inaugural event....
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The evidence is in: greater gender diversity in science benefits us all
Pankaj Sah, The University of Queensland The World Economic Forum estimated last year that at the current slow rate of progress, it will take until 2133 to close the global gender gap across health,...
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Gender matters in science
There’s been some unsettling things happen in New Zealand science of late, but you may not have noticed all of them, as they relate to gender. It’s been a bit of a weird week for New Zealand science....
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How to keep more women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
By Merryn McKinnon, Australian National University There have been myriad promises made by the major political parties over the years focused on funding programs aimed at increasing the number of women...
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Wikipedia is where everybody starts – boosting the profile of New Zealand...
How many women of New Zealand science, living or deceased, can you name? Before I started working at the Royal Society running the Science Media Centre, I’d have to admit that it was an embarrassingly...
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Book review: Inferior – How Science Got Women Wrong
Alongside Naomi Alderman’s The Power, it’s the feminist book everyone’s been reading this year. Angela Saini’s Inferior tackles how science got women wrong and who’s resetting the agenda. Saini is a...
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Suffrage 125: a series
Please don’t do the math, but I was eight in 1993 when New Zealand celebrated 100 years since Suffrage. My mum the history teacher made sure we understood when major world events were going on. I...
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We have always sailed – Suffrage 125
Dr Lucy Stewart As writer Kameron Hurley once said regarding women in the military, “We have always fought” – women have always been involved in field research, including at sea. Aotearoa was named by...
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The superpowers of successful women in STEM – Suffrage 125
Bridget Burdett My PhD oral defence is in nine days, four hours and 31 minutes. I have an app on my phone telling me so. The work is done and it’s nearly all over… a wonderfully surreal time for a...
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Advancing women in science by building ladders – Suffrage 125
Dr Siân Halcrow My work and success in science were, in large part, made possible through the ladders that people made and helped me to climb. Most important on this journey was my academic mentor, who...
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To all Women in Science, thank you for kicking science’s arse! – Suffrage 125
Dr Melanie Cheung I’ve been reflecting on the powerful articles celebrating women that I have read this week. Today is the 125th anniversary of women getting the vote in Aotearoa, and it feels like we...
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