{"id":223,"date":"2004-12-20T01:11:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T01:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=223"},"modified":"2004-12-20T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T01:11:57","slug":"gender-academia-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Gender, academia and the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/003017.html\">raging debate<\/a> over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/\">Crooked Timber<\/a> about women academic bloggers and the alleged dearth thereof.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of which I was amused to count the number of women on a Channel Four programme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/science\/microsites\/W\/what_we_still_dont_know\/index.html\"> What We Still Don&#8217;t Know<\/a> this evening, which spoke to academics whom I would assume came entirely from the physical sciences, mathematics or related fields. Now I missed the first 10 minutes or so, but of the seven or eight academics I heard, guess how many were women? That&#8217;s right, none.<\/p>\n<p>There might still be enormous gender bias in the humanities &#8211; and the academic conferences that I&#8217;ve attended have certainly shown that &#8211; but it is far, far worse in the sciences. (And since my first degree was agricultural science &#8211; as my profile says, I was 17, that&#8217;s my only excuse &#8211; I know plenty of women still battling from within the system.) <\/p>\n<p>As for the media, my &#8220;day&#8221; job, well it is probably a little better than the sciences &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a raging debate over on Crooked Timber about women academic bloggers and the alleged dearth thereof. In the light of which I was amused to count the number of women on a Channel Four programme, What We Still Don&#8217;t Know this evening, which spoke to academics whom I would assume came entirely from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}