#diversity #gender #science
I read through this twitter thread just now:
https://twitter.com/ChemistryKit/status/1392076489760419849?s=20
and I was struck by how it contrasted with the picture of high class research that Dominic Cummings presented to a UK Government Select Committee a few weeks back in which he effectively said that the direction of important breakthrough work should be left to known experts - in effect middle class white men.
While this is wrong, I think it is helpful to have the stories of those whose greater contributions have been lost to us, so that we can carry those stories with us, as a way to counterbalance the normative narrative.
Margret Melhase is a great, but sad, example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Melhase
I read through this twitter thread just now:
https://twitter.com/ChemistryKit/status/1392076489760419849?s=20
and I was struck by how it contrasted with the picture of high class research that Dominic Cummings presented to a UK Government Select Committee a few weeks back in which he effectively said that the direction of important breakthrough work should be left to known experts - in effect middle class white men.
While this is wrong, I think it is helpful to have the stories of those whose greater contributions have been lost to us, so that we can carry those stories with us, as a way to counterbalance the normative narrative.
Margret Melhase is a great, but sad, example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Melhase