Can women thrive—or even survive—within patriarchal science? Can we accomplish anything of significance in an enterprise that often seems devoid of genuine intellectual excitement and comraderie, its talk and journals filled with disconnected trivialities? I have observed five general strategies that women in science...
Tag - gender roles
In a country where over one half of the population are women, why are only 9% of chemists women? Why do women constitute only 4.2% of all physicists and 0.8% of all engineers? Are we dealing here with those mythical natural interests and capabilities of women? Is the reason irrational discrimination, or is it perhaps...