Archives: sexism

Monday, June 15, 2015

#Just1action4WIS

In response to the virtual lynching of Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt, Athene Donald posts a blog questioning whether the invective comments and the pressure for him to resign because of comments that painted him as sexist were merited.  Instead of attacking an individual with no history of, in fact, behaving in a sexist... More

Friday, May 1, 2015

In case you were under the illusion…

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... More

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