Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Jan 14, 2016 •
Two people apply for a job managing a science lab: a male and a female. Who’s more likely to be hired and who will be deemed most worthy of a higher starting salary? You might already know the answer to this question (spoilers: the bloke) but what’s behind the answer is what Dr Nicola Gaston has tackled in her book, … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Dec 16, 2015 •
Science IS sexist. Fullstop. There is an abundance of evidence that it is more difficult for women working in science to get jobs, funding and published, just because they are women. So the question is, how are we going to fix the problem? Dr Nicola Gaston, Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 11, 2015 •
This week in science, another eminent old white guy dug himself into a hole. Here's my 2c on his non-apology and what the Royal Society and other such bodies should do about their biased and out of touch Fellows. Read More