The success of the women’s Euro2022 tournament is a reminder of how far science has come.
Continue readingWe’ve come a long way
gender equality
In conversation with the Algerian Women in Science (ALWIS) group
The Algerian Women in Science group is a new organisation, founded in 2020, committed to training Algerian women to be scientific leaders and supporting their careers.
TIR spoke to Anissa Belfetmi, Sabrina Absalon, and Sarah Helal, three of ALWIS‘ leadership team, to discuss their goals for the organisation and how they plan to help other Algerian women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Continue reading
Gods and Monsters
Nobel prize awards are a time when the worlds of science and celebrity briefly coincide. Should we then use the prizes to promote diversity? Continue reading
Soft power and parenting
Being a parent imposes restraints on soft as well as hard power. Continue reading
To have and to hold…and then to go back to work
It’s fairly well accepted that in the biological sciences roughly 50% of undergraduates are female, with a 50:50 sex ratio also continuing to postgraduate level (see HERE for US data). At postdoc there’s either parity or a slight skew towards men, and thereafter a steadily climbing rate of male occupancy as one climbs up the higher echelons of academia (LINK). (It’s even more male-biased in the physical sciences)
There has been much hand-wringing about this. Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 