tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post3627209707075014084..comments2023-10-26T17:50:34.134+00:00Comments on Fish Feet: Where did all of the chicks go?Sarda Sahneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15304436221452464387noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-27094054875108423192009-12-15T21:32:52.298+00:002009-12-15T21:32:52.298+00:00Good Day!!! fishfeet2007.blogspot.com is one of th...Good Day!!! fishfeet2007.blogspot.com is one of the most excellent informational websites of its kind. I enjoy reading it every day. Keep it that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-22414470569982094562007-09-30T21:31:00.000+00:002007-09-30T21:31:00.000+00:00Well, way back in my day (I'm 45 now) girls were d...Well, way back in my day (I'm 45 now) girls were discouraged from science and math classes. From what I see now that has changed, thankfully. Maybe not enough, but it is better than it was in the 70s. <BR/><BR/>I love your blog and writing style. Thanks!MYMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17679094659957098225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-47219107773797241522007-09-30T19:33:00.000+00:002007-09-30T19:33:00.000+00:00Good blog! I mentioned it on mine, though in a kin...Good blog! I mentioned it on mine, though in a kind of silly way.WendyBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985099019783464580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-10559820090796506672007-09-24T04:59:00.000+00:002007-09-24T04:59:00.000+00:00A study in good old egalitarian Sweden a few years...A study in good old egalitarian Sweden a few years ago discovered that to be considered as competent, a female scientist had to publish approximately five times as much.Monadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12523329434641725631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-88677534371131710102007-09-22T13:43:00.000+00:002007-09-22T13:43:00.000+00:00It may take a while until the female scientists ca...It may take a while until the female scientists catch up the ranks. I think that they are capable of becoming excellent scientists. Maybe, it has to do with the cultures that drove young females to other interests? That's one possibility.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787987986606248260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-25340729437387090622007-09-21T20:12:00.000+00:002007-09-21T20:12:00.000+00:00Thanks for your comments. Julia, I agree with you ...Thanks for your comments. Julia, I agree with you wholeheartedly about female scientists getting caught up in the social issues surrounding being a female academic. To be quite blunt I find most articles written on this topic to be dull (was that a terribly insensitive and politically incorrect thing to say? :) Quite frankly, I just like to read about Science!Sarda Sahneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15304436221452464387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-10367422875064563402007-09-21T16:40:00.000+00:002007-09-21T16:40:00.000+00:00I would agree with both yourself and Julia, Sarda....I would agree with both yourself and Julia, Sarda. In archaeology, my chosen field, the ratio of male to female is perhaps more equal (although it does seem to vary to some degree between sub-disciplines), but having studied geology at undergraduate level I am well aware that that is not the case for all sciences. I would not be at all surprised to discover that there are more male science bloggers simply because there are more male scientists at graduate level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-37728790390930169552007-09-21T14:59:00.000+00:002007-09-21T14:59:00.000+00:00That was the first point I made - that the ratio o...That was the first point I made - that the ratio of men to women is about 2:1 (at least, as you point out, at the graduate student level), so we should expect to see fewer women in the scientific blogosphere than men.<BR/><BR/>The second aspect being that I think female science bloggers are more likely than their male counterparts to choose to write about the social issues of science and academia and <B>not</B> the actual science. To the extent in some cases that they choose anonymity and don't divulge their field of study. You and I are clearly not doing this, but I think there's some degree of self-removal from the pool of science blogs.<BR/><BR/>Most people in the blogosphere seem to accept that there are fewer female science bloggers than male science bloggers because there are fewer women than men in science (this may change - we may not see the attrition in female academics that you've mentioned). But the thing that really got everyone's goat was the absence of a female blogger on the panel - regardless of the ratio of men to women in the scientific blogosphere, it would have been nice to have had the representation there.<BR/><BR/>Having said that, the men were all white and English-speaking. Which I put down to the fact that TheScientist is an English-language North American magazine, and not to any subconscious racism. And Chris Taylor said in my comments "never assume malice where stupidity will suffice", so it's probably just an oversight.<BR/><BR/>But one that serves as a useful discussion point nonetheless.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695173188736074202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-69744846099658907182007-09-21T14:15:00.000+00:002007-09-21T14:15:00.000+00:00Where have you been Malacoda? I've missed your *in...Where have you been Malacoda? I've missed your *insightful* comments.Sarda Sahneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15304436221452464387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868618319990879375.post-66966439607725478012007-09-21T13:48:00.000+00:002007-09-21T13:48:00.000+00:00I suspect it's actually that men are just smarter....I suspect it's actually that men are just smarter. After all scienticians have proven that a man's brain is 4 times larger than a woman's and less full of crap. For instance men are more interested in really important stuff like cars and football, whereas women are more interested in things like bonnets and ribbons.Malacodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02602635447222532525noreply@blogger.com