{"id":449,"date":"2011-07-12T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/?p=449"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:03:23","slug":"unique-perspective-on-bias-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/unique-perspective-on-bias-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique perspective on bias in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Ben Barres wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v442\/n7099\/full\/442133a.html\">this compelling piece for <em>Nature<\/em> <\/a>which confronts the stereotype that women do not succeed in science because of a lack of innate ability. As a female-to-male transgendered person, Barres has a very unique perspective on the situation. Barres wrote the article in direct response to former Harvard president <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_between_the_sexes\">Larry Summers&#8217; infamous &#8220;women just aren&#8217;t as good at math and science&#8221; speech<\/a>. According to Barres, Summers&#8217; hypothesis just isn&#8217;t supported by the available evidence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite powerful social factors that discourage women from studying maths and science from a very young age, there is little evidence that gender differences in maths abilities exist, are innate or are even relevant to the lack of advancement of women in science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barres draws on strong evidence from from rigorous studies as well as compelling anecdotal evidence from his own life experiences. Overall, the paper presents a well-reasoned argument that all proponents of the advancement of women in science should read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Ben Barres wrote this compelling piece for Nature which confronts the stereotype that women do not succeed in science because of a lack of innate ability. As a female-to-male transgendered person, Barres has a very unique perspective on the situation. Barres wrote the article in direct &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[63,60,61,62,29,19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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