Women Who Win Science Prizes Earn Less Money, Prestige than Men. Eu.usatoday. Jocelyn Bell Burnell's male colleagues were given a Nobel in 1974 for her discovery of radio pulsars. Now, one of the world's top scientists is receiving some retroactive respect: a Breakthrough Prize and nearly $3 million in award money. She's being given the award for her "fundamental contributions to the discovery of pulsars, and a lifetime of inspiring leadership in the scientific community," according to a statement from the prize board.
Bell Burnell told USA TODAY she was "literally speechless" when she learned she would receive the honor. She said she plans use her prize money to set up a scholarship for women, ethnic minorities and refugee graduate students through the Institute of Physics. Women and minorities are underrepresented in astronomy and science leadership, she said, and she'd like to change that. "If you have a diverse group of people, it’s more robust and more successful and more flexible," she said. 1 of 12 Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions 12 Photos. To Highlight Gender Gaps, Scientists Decline Opportunities. Dealing With Impostor Syndrome When You’re Treated as an Impostor. Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies.
Opinion | A.I. Is Harder Than You Think. Opinion | The Open Secret of Anti-Mom Bias at Work. Ensuring equity in service work (opinion) SPARQTools | Social psychological recipes for solving real-world problems. Wellcome Trust Makes Reporting Harassment Mandatory. The UK-based biomedical research charity says researchers or institutions that fail to report misconduct will risk losing grants. The Wellcome Trust, a funding organization in the U.K., announced yesterday (May 3) a new policy requiring academics and institutions to report bullying and harassment. Under the new policy, the Wellcome Trust will be able to withhold funding from researchers who have been found guilty of harassment.
It will also require universities to investigate allegations in a timely manner, report misconduct, and have clear policies outlining appropriate behavior. Institutions that fail to do so will face sanctions, such as temporary bans from applying for grants. “This will help improve research culture as it attacks any power misuse,” Helene Schiffbaenker, a sociologist who studies gender in research and innovation at Joanneum Research, a non-academic research institute in Austria, tells Nature. Some researchers question how effective the policy might be. Women Are Underrepresented at Conferences: Study.
An analysis of abstracts from American Geophysical Union meetings reveals that female scientists get fewer speaking opportunities than men. Women are less likely to be invited and assigned speaking opportunities at conferences, according to a study published yesterday (April 24) in Nature Communications. Heather Ford of the University of Cambridge says in a statement that she and her colleagues were motivated to investigate the gender distribution of conference speakers after finding there were “too many conference sessions” with just one female presenter, or none at all. Ford and her colleagues investigated the lists of speakers at American Geophysical Union (AGU) meetings between 2014 and 2016 to see how many male and female speakers were either assigned talks—meaning they’d submitted an abstract and had been accepted—or invited to give a presentation by conference organizers.
Theconversation. We are not only living in an age where women are being under-represented in many spheres of economic life, but technology could make this even worse. Women hold just 19% of board directorships in the US and Europe. This gender gap in the boardroom persists, despite the fact that, on average, women have obtained higher educational qualifications than their male counterparts for more than two decades in many OECD countries. And the main reason is social bias. This is on the verge of being further reinforced by artificial intelligence, as current data being used to train machines to learn are often biased. With the rapid deployment of AI, this biased data will influence the predictions that machines make.
Whenever you have a dataset of human decisions, it naturally includes bias. This could include hiring decisions, grading student exams, medical diagnosis, loan approvals. Read more: Growing role of artificial intelligence in our lives is 'too important to leave to men' AI in action. NSF Will Require Reporting of Sexual Harassment | The Scientist Magazine® The agency could demand institutions it funds to remove researchers who are found guilty of misconduct from NSF-supported projects. National Science Foundation headquarters, Ballston, VirginiaNSF The National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds about one quarter of all federally supported basic research in the United States, will require institutions it supports to report grant recipients who have been found to have committed sexual harassment, the agency announced Thursday (February 8). Any individuals placed on administrative leave related to a harassment investigation or finding must also be reported to NSF under the new rule.
“NSF doesn’t tolerate sexual harassment or any form of harassment at grantee institutions or field sites, or anywhere that science is done,” France A. Córdova, the agency’s director, said in a press briefing (via Science). “It’s a big step in the right direction,” Erika Marín-Spiotta, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tells Nature.
ChronFocus SexualBoundaries v2 i. Why Women Bully Each Other at Work. Updated on August 3, 2017 The bitches, as Shannon saw it, came in three varieties. She categorized them on her personal blog, in a post titled “Beware the Female BigLaw Partner.” First was the “aggressive bitch”—a certain kind of high-ranking woman at the firm where she worked who didn’t think twice about “verbally assaulting anyone.” When one such partner’s name appeared on caller ID, Shannon told me, “we would just freak out.” Next was the two-faced “passive-aggressive bitch,” whose “subtle, semi-rude emails” hinted that “you really shouldn’t leave before 6:30.” She was arguably worse than the aggressive bitch, because you might never know where you stand. Last but not least, the “tuned-out, indifferent bitch,” Shannon wrote, “is so busy, both with work and family, that they don’t have time for anything … This partner is not trying to be mean, but hey, they got assignments at midnight when they were associates.
“There obviously are exceptions,” she added. As Joan C. “YAAAAA!” Why Women Prefer Male Bosses - The Atlantic. ‘Beauty Myth’ Writer Says Yale Blocked Harassment Claim. Why Is Fixing Sexism Women’s Work? In 2013, in the stylish atrium of a Seattle ad agency, I moderated a panel for the 3 Percent Movement, an organization founded to address the dismal statistic that, at the time of its beginnings, only 3 percent of advertising creative directors were women (according to the organization’s website, that number has since climbed to 11 percent). There were three women and one man on the panel. The audience was almost exclusively women. Our conversation was wide-ranging and sometimes contentious: We talked about the implications of men sculpting women’s insecurities to maximize corporate profits, and how even a gender-blind application process isn’t a perfect fix in a society that punishes feminine boldness and confidence.
Whenever talk turned toward solutions, the panel came back to mentorship: women lifting up other women. The Misogynist Aesthetics of Visuality – The situation. “All hitherto existing visuality becomes aesthetic by being misogynist.” This is the necessary update to my past claim that “the right to look…is very much a feminist project.” Visuality is not just “masculine” or “heroic” but actively depends on misogyny for its ability to claim legitimacy.
Its permanent crisis is a condition of its patriarchal possibility, evoked through nostalgia. As imagined in Blade Runner 2049, for instance, the sequel to the visual culture classic Blade Runner (1982). Before beginning this rewrite, let’s take a moment to say that I’m aware that this is not just any modulation of an analysis. In The Right to Look, the patriarchal authority to visualize is set against collective, democratic forms of countervisuality, yes. Misogynist visuality “Visuality” is the specific technology of coloniality formed on the plantation by the overseer, generalized as a technology of colonial war, and later named in English by Thomas Carlyle (1840). 2049 is now the machine gaze.