I think this article poses the question of whether someone’s career should end if she classified you as a “harrasshole”.
I have no question that she makes a valid point about workplace etiquette, but does her proposed punishment fit the crime?
I can’t speak for neuroscience, but in biology if anything there are more women than men doing research and teaching at universities.
I’ve never heard a female biologist talk about abuse and harassment from male biologists. Women have been welcome in the biology community for a very long time, though. Hell, it was a woman, Rosalind Franklin, whose x-ray picture of a DNA molecule gave Watson and Crick the idea for the molecular structure of DNA.
Oops, forgot to mention that the thing with Rosalind Franklin was from 1953. That was the point in me mentioning it, to illustrate my point about women working as research biologists for a long time now.
if it’s a problem today
by the time all these girls that have gotten STEM get in there,
it might change.
I think the new generation of women are going to be much more interested in STEM subjects. As I look around at school, I see a bunch of women doing well at science and math classes, even tech classes. The only thing I don’t see is women being interested in engineering. But regardless I think they see it as a new career field that wasn’t explored much by earlier generations of women.
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