Occasionally, however, we hear an excited shout that makes us cringe. As we walk into a classroom, we sometimes hear a student scream, “It’s the lady scientists!” When I hear these shouts, I fear we may have inadvertently introduced the idea that we women need our own science club because we are somehow different from other scientists–the idea that there are scientists, and then there are lady scientists. We certainly do need our own club and will continue to need it until the gender gap in science closes. I wonder, though, whether by cluing young children into this fact, we have created a gender divide that otherwise wouldn’t exist for them yet. If we just introduced ourselves as scientists, and didn’t mention our club, would it have occurred to students that not one of us is male? .. I disagree here - there is zero reason to have a (science focused) club based on gender. Unless were all going to sit around writing with our Bic-For-Women pencils and trading tampon insertion techniques, I see zero offering of progress here. On the level of graduate doctoral training and beyond, its just fundamentally regressive and off-topic, a waste of everyones time. Separately, this LEGO scientist situation is its own cloying defamation. Popular culture plays that idiocy card well and often, indeed.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:10:24 +0000
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