Typically gender-based discrimination in academia is expressed in such a way that it is difficult to really be sure that it is discrimination. But once in awhile, something so blatantly sexist happens that it becomes apparent that either we have become very good at covering up a continued foundation of inequality, or that the outrage that occurs proves that such behaviour is the exception rather than the rule. But really, who would have thought that in this day and age a review that tells women that they need male co-authors on their paper would even be sent out to the authors?! Well, at least an apology was issued. Read more at Sexist peer review.
Thumbnail photo: Dorothy Hodgkin, Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964