Chief Scientist: "So in the life sciences, medicine, a HUGE percentage of the graduates coming through are female. In engineering it's more extreme the other way around. But we've got imbalances within professions we have to decide is that NECESSARILY A BAD THING?" #StridentWomenpic.twitter.com/15qugpoJ8D
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#StridentWomen mind can't decide if inequality is *necessarily* a bad thing, but here's the numbers. In medical sciences & health, 72% of undergrads are women. But only 33% of senior professors are women. Don't want to be strident, but that's the opposite of "huge"pic.twitter.com/28E4nARFZ8
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But the Chief Scientist is shaking so many lady hands, that must mean progress has been made?
#StridentWomen always bringing the mood down, going public after being told to stay silent on sexual harassment & "treat everybody as a potential attacker"https://www.theage.com.au/national/senior-surgeon-gabrielle-mcmullin-stands-by-advice-for-female-doctors-to-stay-silent-on-sex-abuse-20150307-13xzog.html …1 reply 8 retweets 48 likesShow this thread -
The Chief Scientist urges us to "look at the numbers" and stop being
#StridentWomen. Here's more numbers: half of 3,500 surgeons surveyed have experienced harassment & bullying. 1 in 3 women have been sexually harassed. Keep telling those progress stories!https://www.smh.com.au/national/bullying-endemic-among-surgeons-but-victims-too-scared-to-speak-up-report-finds-20150909-gjiuxl.html …2 replies 19 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
Wait a minute - all that rife harassment & discrimination was in 2015. So much progress since then! Right? By 2018, 20% of surgeons have failed to complete compulsory anti-sexual harassment training implemented to address 2015 findings.
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Okay that's medicine. The Chief Scientist mentioned life sciences too. Yep, they have gender parity in junior roles but as I showed earlier, less than one third of senior leaders are women. Other
#StridentWomen research shows same inequity in industry https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/09/20/why-too-few-women-life-sciences-bad-for-business/crkrbriWLw2IKJMoIzCjgI/story.html …1 reply 12 retweets 33 likesShow this thread -
So that's the story of numbers. Senior White men may want women to focus on progress, but that's not our narrative.
#StridentWomen can & do share triumphs, but we should be free to talk about discrimination without the most influential scientist in the country being disparaging.pic.twitter.com/lKXnYtyXzp4 replies 20 retweets 78 likesShow this thread -
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I’m so over the “it used to be worse narrative”
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It is a false narrative. Are there more women in STEM now than before? Yes BUT not in computer science AND change has been incremental. "How many women" is also about recruitment, and ignores retention & promotion numbers. Then the cost of what women go through to stay in STEM.
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In atmospheric chemistry we have a habit of focusing on things that are stable. If it forms and disappears it only exists because of what it facilitates...



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Oh my goddess - this is a lovely analogy! 
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