Our Picks for December 16th

Hope everyone in academia has gotten through the semester unscathed!

First, we have an article from the Boston Globe describing that while women are making moves to empower themselves in the workplace, men also have their part to play in being a colleague in the age of #MeToo.

Second, this article highlights that even "woke" men are not immune to implicit bias. It's one thing to believe in equality in theory, but when it comes to practice, it's not quite as simple.

Unfortunately, I'm sure a lot of us can relate to the situations illustrated in this article. Casual sexism does seem to permeate the field of science. An important theme here is if you were in these situations, what would you do? I once had someone tell me my data was "cute" at a conference. Well, my reaction sure was not cute. What experiences have you all had, and how did you react?

This next article does a thorough job of breaking down how sexual harassment claims in the work place are handled and what their outcomes tend to be. Does the problem get addressed? How? Does the person reporting see any benefit in doing so? Does the offender face consequences?

Lastly, an article from The Conversation discusses how women over-invest in their workplace capabilities. Why is that Canadian physicist Donna Strickland did not receive a promotion to full professor until after she had won a Nobel Prize? Simply put: She never applied. Why do women have a greater propensity to over-invest than their male colleagues? What does it mean to over-invest, and what does the research have to say about it? Perhaps more importantly, what can we do with this information?

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