Flutterby™! : Misogyny in (neuro)science

Inside Higher Ed: (Mis)Judging Female Scientists. A University of Chicago professor posted on his Facebook feed:

"My impression of the Conference of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans. There are thousands of people at the conference and an unusually high concentration of unattractive women. The super model types are completely absent. What is going on? Are unattractive women particularly attracted to neuroscience? Are beautiful women particularly uninterested in the brain? No offense to anyone..”

This is a run-down of some of the reactions. I particularly liked On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess: What We Learn When Professorly d00ds Take to Facebook…:

Now, Dr. Maestripieri’s comments will certainly come as no great shock to the women who read them. That’s because those of us who have been around the conference scene for a while know that this is pretty par for the course. There’s not just sekrit, hidden sexism in academia. A lot of it is pretty overt. And many of us know about the pockets of perv-fest that can occur at scientific meetings. ...