Useless information #15 – Winning Nobel Prizes working as volunteers… yes it happened.
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Very nice post, over the past many years, science has been an especially male dominated field. Even those women who made significant contributions had largely been brushed to the side. It is important that we now, look back and give credit to these amazing scientists! Thank you for writing this up!
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Pretty interesting. Especially getting a lab assistant title after getting a Nobel Prize, that is just really weird.
Weird times, indeed.
I don't think women were permitted to work as scientists then
Women and science... one hundred years ago... well...
Not a novelty but I found it most impressive because they were top scientists. I wonder how many gave up their careers for similar reasons and what could they have found...
The gender issue is an actual problem, at least in my field. We have roughly 15% women. Knowing that, we are imposed to form selection committees with a gender parity. Women are starting to be harassed to participate to committees as we do not have enough of them.
Sometimes, we need to rank one male and one female physicists. We have one female candidate and 20 male candidates. As a result, the scientific arguments are not those that count the most anymore, and this is too bad. Inversely, sometimes the female candidate is better than the male candidates, but people will start to complain about discrimination. Which could have been avoided without these gender requirements.
Just to finish, I am totally in favor of promoting women in science, don't think the opposite. However, this must account for the specificity of the different fields and scientific criteria must always prevail. We need appropriate actions and not requests made by ministers that have no clue about what is going on on the field...
Sorry, that was not the topic...