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SEXISM IN SCIENCENovember 19, 2013
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A recent PBS video showing a figurine of Albert Einstein accosting Marie Curie has caused uproar amongst scientists-male and female. Last month, an even greater uproar was sounded as Scientific American blogger Danielle Lee revealed an editor had called her “an urban whore” when she refused to blog for free. Just shortly after that, Monica Byrne, Hannah Waters, and Kathleen Raven courageously stepped forward to document how the prolific Scientific American blogger Bora Zivkovic had harassed them on numerous accounts.
So much sexism in such little time that the National Association of Science Writers convened a session on the sexual harassment of science writers entitled, “The XX question.” But is the treatment of women in science really a question at this point? It is most certainly a problem and the problem is simple: women are not treated the same as men in science, not even close, and they never have been.
The stories these women published have helped to open some scientist’s eyes to the sexism that persists in science today. But many women’s stories about being mistreated or harassed often go untold. Indeed, how many of the following scientist’s names do you recognize? And of those how many are female?
Hertha Ayrton
Jacques Monod
Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin
Emil Fisher
Maria Mayer
Paul Dirac
Elizabeth Blackwell
Rudolf Virchow
If you don’t know many of them, we encourage you to look them up! Their stories are inspirational and are covered in far more detail elsewhere than we could do them justice. Did you know that Hertha Ayrton, a prominent electrical engineer, was nominated to the Royal Society with the support of nine members in 1902 but was turned down because “married women are not eligible as Fellows of the Royal Society.” Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin attended Cambridge University in 1919 to study physics, finished her studies, but was not awarded a degree because Cambridge did not grant women degrees until 1948. She did, however, ultimately receive her PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe University (Harvard), the first woman to do it.
Sexism so blatant and in the open as this makes one wonder what’s possible in the closed anonymous process that is peer review? A study in 1997 found the system to be filled with nepotism and sexism. Their prescription:
“secrecy in evaluation must be abandoned.”
This is precisely what we’re building at The Winnower: transparent scientific publishing from start to finish because the best deterrent to sexism in science is the exposition of it. If you have any other ideas how we can stop sexism in science, we’re happy to hear them! Please share below or email us at contact@thewinnower.comOPENBOOK READ ITCHAT LEAVE A COMMENT
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