Tagged: gender bias

ACC’s policy of not covering birth injuries is one more sign the system is overdue for reform - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 13, 2021 •

• ACC,
• Birth,
• gender bias,
• New Zealand stories

Claire Breen, University of Waikato Recent media coverage of women not being able to get treatment for birth injuries highlights yet another example of gender bias in healthcare in New Zealand. Following a policy review, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which covers accidental injuries, has restricted access to compensation for women who suffer perineal tears during birth. Read More

Gender bias in medicine and medical research is still putting women’s health at risk - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 08, 2021 •

• gender bias,
• human biology,
• International Women's Day,
• medical research,
• women's health

Kelly Burrowes, University of Auckland International Women’s Day celebrates women’s achievements and raises awareness of the continuing mission towards gender equality. So it’s a good time to be reminded we still need to correct decades — centuries even — of gender bias in medicine and medical research. It’s no secret men and women are different. It’s why we have a … Read More

The myth of judging people on their merits - Guest Work

Guest Author • Oct 17, 2018 •

• gender bias,
• merits,
• Science

Nancy Longnecker The well-written article entitled ‘Why men don’t believe the data on gender bias in science’ by Alison Coil stimulated this post. Coil points out that gender disparity is about much more than a numbers game and is not necessarily the result of the overt sexual harassment that is at long last being exposed in some industries. Read More

Suffrage 125: a series - Suffrage 125

Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Sep 17, 2018 •

• gender bias,
• Kate Sheppard,
• Suffrage,
• women in science

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 remember her pointing out the Rwandan refugee crisis on TV, telling us it would matter later that we remembered this. Read More

Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 20, 2018 •

• biography,
• editing,
• education,
• gender,
• gender bias,
• gender representation,
• google translate,
• journalism,
• libraries,
• LinkedIn,
• media,
• online,
• students,
• technology,
• undergraduate,
• username,
• Wikipedia,
• women,
• women in red,
• writing

Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology and Lara Nicosia, Rochester Institute of Technology This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Movements like #MeToo are drawing increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government. Discrimination is … Read More

Book review: Inferior – How Science Got Women Wrong - Scibooks

Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Dec 24, 2017 •

• evolution,
• gender bias,
• women in science

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 science journalist with a Masters in Engineering, so she can talk with first-hand experience about some of the issues faced in sciences. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New … Read More

Improving gender balance in physics - Physics Stop

Marcus Wilson • Apr 07, 2017 •

• bias,
• education,
• gender balance,
• gender bias,
• physics,
• Science

The Institute of Physics has just released a report on recent interventions designed to improve the uptake of physics at ‘A’-level by girls*. Although there have been considerable efforts in the UK to improve the gender balance over two decades, there has not been any substantial change – about 20% of a typical A-level physics class is … Read More

Sexism, shirts, Sutton and saying goodbye - Ice Doctor

Victoria Metcalf • Dec 09, 2014 •

• #gamergate,
• #shirtstorm,
• academia,
• Antarctica,
• Bill Cosby,
• gender bias,
• gender equality,
• general science,
• leadership,
• polar,
• Roger Sutton,
• sexism,
• women in science

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 restructuring process officially complete. It’s time for a new chapter in what has been a pretty ugly year. Now I start on an adventure into an … Read More

Frozen Friday Fab Four #5 - Ice Doctor

Victoria Metcalf • May 23, 2014 •

• Academia,
• academia,
• academic freedom,
• Antarctica,
• Antarctica,
• climate change,
• Creativity,
• Frozen Friday Fab Four,
• gender bias,
• General science,
• glacier,
• global warming,
• imagination,
• innovation,
• sexual organs

Four of the Antarctic or anything else headlines/social media bits that have grabbed my attention this week(ish). Large glaciers are in irreversible decline signalling the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet more rapidly than predicted. Sea levels will rise as a result. Image credit: Victoria Metcalf 1. Although it may have been overshadowed somewhat by the elevator bust-up … Read More