sexism - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png sexism - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 The Finkbeiner test https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/25/the-finkbeiner-test/ Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:36:44 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=655 Christie Aschwanden has an excellent piece up at XX Science, with a simple experiment you can do at home to identify sexism in science journalism! As a long-time fan of the Bechdel Test, I’m easily convinced that science journalism warrants a similar instrument. Finkbeiner’s test is interesting because, unlike the Bechdel Test (which primarily reveals… Read More »The Finkbeiner test

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]]> 3933 Science, the gender gap, and how to make it worse https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/07/science-the-gender-gap-and-how-to-make-it-worse/ Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:00:51 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=459 Of late, some people have really hit it out of the park when it comes to articulating the obstacles women face in science. In what seems to be an effort to restore symmetry to the universe, the Guardian’s Emma G. Keller recently did her best to hit it right back in. The piece is a… Read More »Science, the gender gap, and how to make it worse

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