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Advice for science careers – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 21, 2018

Dr Sarah Morgan For the girls wanting a career in science, or the young women wanting to get out: my story. Wizard My journey through science as a woman has been a bit of a meander. As a kid I was the one playing down the back of the garden mixing up magic potions (mud, leaves, flower … Read More

Walking together – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 21, 2018

Dr Priscilla Wehi For this series of blogs, I began thinking about those who support, nurture and inspire us as scientists. The late Hana Harawira remains an inspiration to me, and hence this blog is about her, written together with her whanau. E Hana, taku hoa pūmau, he mea paku māhau. Unconventional … Read More

Two Nobels for your vote – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 21, 2018

Dr Susan Rapley For all people who experience misogyny, and like Madame Curie, reject society’s notions of how we “ought” to be. Why Marie Curie? She’s old news. The one lady scientist everyone can name without hesitation. But, in considering the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Aotearoa, she is an obvious contemporary. Read More

The books we’ve shared – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 20, 2018

Kate Hannah I can’t remember the last book I talked about with my grandmother. She borrowed my copy of Nicky Hagar’s Dirty Politics after the 2014 election, devastated at the results. She’d always taken an active interest in politics, having studied political science at Victoria, completing in 1943 and … Read More

Embracing Mātauranga Māori and science – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 20, 2018

Yvonne Taura When I was young and growing up in Australia, becoming a scientist was far from my ideal career path. I shied away from anything to do with science, physics, or mathematics as the room was always filled with boys – and, to be honest, it was all a little intimidating. Instead, I moved more towards the creative … Read More

Science role models outside the box – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 20, 2018

Stacey Bryan Where I grew up it’s more common to see someone riding their horse down the main street than someone in a lab coat. It’s a place full of kind-hearted people, who fill their pantries by swapping eggs for avocados and who regularly take long walks on the beach, just because they can. It’s also a place where, … Read More

NZ behind on paid parental leave – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 19, 2018

Dr Frederique Vanholsbeeck What’s more important the right to vote or paid parental leave? I would argue that we need both to achieve equality and that New Zealand is miles behind in term of “properly” paid parental leave. I came to New Zealand from Belgium in 2003 after choosing carefully a country where I would live and learn to speak … Read More

To all Women in Science, thank you for kicking science’s arse! – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 19, 2018

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 have come a long way since then. Dr Melanie Cheung, supplied. Any women working in a male-dominated field also realise that we still have … Read More

A woman’s touch: Where are the evolutionary studies of female animals? – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 19, 2018

Dr Leilani Walker Back in 2015 I attended a talk by Lloyd Spencer Davis who was promoting his new book Professor Penguin: Discovery and Adventure With Penguins. One of the stories he told was that of biologist George Murray Levick, medical officer on Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910. As a consequence … Read More

Advancing women in science by building ladders – Suffrage 125

Guest Author • Sep 18, 2018

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 was my PhD supervisor and postdoctoral mentor. My mentor built up a positive research group by helping her students and staff up the … Read More

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