Last week, Dotty Winters wrote a letter to Tim Hunt following his poorly judged ‘jokes’ at a conference event to celebrate international female science journalists in Korea. Though lighthearted in tone, the letter’s message was clear: institutional and cultural sexism within scientific academia is alive and well. That science is aware of it is just one step towards winning the war.
A great thing about Huntgate is the army of scientists and non-scientists, men, women, cis and trans, that felt the need to speak up for greater diversity in science, through both social and traditional media. I hope that through this media outlets are now aware of the vast numbers of scientists who can effectively communicate scientific ideas in an engaging manner.
