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• Autores: Lara Williams
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3144, 2017, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Williams comments on the appointment of eight all-male members of the new House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. Those defending an all-male line-up might make a common argument that crops up in debates on diversity in science and technology: that men dominate because too few women are qualified or interested in these professions. They might seize on recent stats from the WISE campaign for gender parity, which found that women made up just 14% of engineering and technology graduates. But in order to make the broadly reductive argument that qualified or interested women just aren't there, people must ignore barriers and structures, including overt sexism, that stop women from seeing science or technology as an accessible, relevant career. In unveiling an all-male line up for a body as important as this committee, they don't just validate that argument--they reinforce it.