Guest Work • Mar 01, 2017 •
By Lorena Rivera León, United Nations University Female research scientists are more productive than their male colleagues, though they are widely perceived as being less so. Women are also rewarded less for their scientific achievements. That’s according to my team’s recent study for United Nations University – Merit on gender inequality in scientific research in Mexico, published as … Read More
John Pickering • Aug 31, 2016 •
This week the NZ Herald published an article saying doctors are failing to spot heart attacks in thousands of women. This sounds alarming, could it be happening in NZ? Are women getting a raw deal? Important questions. This post looks at the study behind the media and then at how heart attacks are being diagnosed in New Zealand. The Herald … Read More
Guest Work • Jul 13, 2016 •
By Merryn McKinnon, Australian National University There have been myriad promises made by the major political parties over the years focused on funding programs aimed at increasing the number of women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Although some of the policies do target disciplines where women are underrepresented, there seems to be very little acknowledgement … Read More
Guest Work • Jun 21, 2016 •
By Peter Sonksen, University of Southampton and Daryl Adair, University of Technology Sydney There are performance differences between the sexes in elite sport. It has long been assumed that contrasting levels of testosterone in men and women can largely account for that gap, but new scientific studies are bringing that into question. Read More
- Wayne Linklater • Oct 31, 2014 •
Chances are you have heard it said: ‘Women care more about the environment’. Perhaps you have even heard someone say that ‘women are more environmentally aware’ or ‘women are more likely to act to protect the environment’? The idea appears to originate from the argument that women have a more substantive … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Jun 13, 2014 •
I just found this very clever clip which I think demonstrates one of the reasons why we don’t have more women in engineering & the sciences. Read More
Michael Edmonds • Jun 07, 2014 •
New Zealand needs more engineers, and one way to achieve this is to encourage more women to consider engineering as a career. The benefits of having more women in engineering are many. Engineering jobs these days are often team efforts, which typically benefit from team diversity. And dare I say it, more women many have a civilising effect on male … Read More
Victoria Metcalf • Mar 28, 2014 •
Four of the Antarctic or anything else headlines/social media bits that have grabbed my attention this week. 1. A new study (full reference here) released has just shown that there’s a lot more ice being lost from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet than previously thought. We should … Read More
John Pickering • Nov 06, 2013 •
A Christchurch researcher is trying to understand why so many more women than men were injured in the Canterbury earthquakes. Professor Mike Ardagh is Chair of the RHISE (Researching the Health Implications of Seismic Events) group. Professor Ardagh leads a team investigating the health system response to the quakes. His team found the health system … Continue reading → … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jan 31, 2013 •
Two weeks ago, we asked Kiwis what they thought they would die of, and compared their responses to the primary causes of death recorded by the Ministry of Health for the 29,204 people who died in New Zealand in 2009. Mike Dickison produced a beautiful infographic* of the causes that were responsible for more than 1% … Read More