Research Reveals Low Exposure of Excellent Work By Female Scientists

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of Sheffield have found that high quality science by female academics is underrepresented in comparison to that of their male counterparts. The researchers analyzed the genders of invited speakers at the most prestigious gatherings of evolutionary biologists in Europe — six biannual congresses of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) and found that male speakers outnumbered women. Even in comparison to the numbers of women and men among world class scientists – from the world top ranked institutions for life sciences, and authors in the top-tier journals Nature and Science - women were still underrepresented among invited speakers."

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Re:How does it compare?

[Anonymous Coward]

In other words, the women themselves are fucking up their own chances of peer exposure. No wait, that came out wrong.

In other words, the women are exposing themselves to their husband instead of their peers. No wait, that came out wrong too.

Ah, fuck it.

Age-old dilemma

[Aaron B Lingwood]

If only female scientists would tell us their findings instead of expecting us to read their minds.