{"id":146452,"date":"2015-07-08T21:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/08\/no-sexism-in-science-doesnt-mean-advisers-take\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:04:52","slug":"no-sexism-in-science-doesnt-mean-advisers-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/08\/no-sexism-in-science-doesnt-mean-advisers-take\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>No, sexism in science doesn\u2019t mean advisers take their students aside and say \u201cdon\u2019t worry, you\u2019ll pass your thesis defense, because I\u2019ve noticed we both have a penis.\u201d It doesn\u2019t mean tenure committee meetings include the action item \u201cDID YOU NOTICE SHE\u2019S A WOMAN? INAPPROPRIATE? DISCUSS.\u201d It doesn\u2019t mean lab doors have signs saying \u201cno open-toed shoes and no chicks.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>\nHere\u2019s what male scientists and historically male-led departments do instead: Offer little or no maternity leave for graduate students. Evaluate women employees on their personalities rather than their competence. Make jokes that cause women colleagues to feel left out and belittled. Go on national television in a shirt that shows women as decorative, sexualized semi-nudes. Hire people who just seem to fit in with the culture that thinks all of this is okay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.damemagazine.com\/2014\/11\/13\/hes-smart-enough-land-drone-comet-naked-lady-shirt\" target=\"_blank\">Jess Zimmerman<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thatssoscience.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thatssoscience<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, sexism in science doesn\u2019t mean advisers take their students aside and say \u201cdon\u2019t worry, you\u2019ll pass your thesis defense, because I\u2019ve noticed we both have a penis.\u201d It doesn\u2019t mean tenure committee meetings include the action item \u201cDID YOU NOTICE SHE\u2019S A WOMAN? INAPPROPRIATE? DISCUSS.\u201d It doesn\u2019t mean lab doors have signs saying \u201cno &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/08\/no-sexism-in-science-doesnt-mean-advisers-take\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16660,309,6323,4,4611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}