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?

[msauve]

"Expecting women to take the entire burden is unfair."

It's unfair that men don't have mammaries or uteri? It may seem unfair to you, but that's the way nature worked things out - women naturally carry the child until birth, then care for its nutritional needs afterwards. The men provided food and protection for the women. Women stay home and nurture (and gather when not doing that), men roam, hunt and fight. That's been ingrained for a million years, and expecting it to change as fast as society might want is unrealistic.

"Part of it is having better child care"

So, latch-key kids is your vision for a better society?