Day 192/365: Hashtag Not All Men

[nanila]

Four Imperial College physicists were awarded medals by the Institute of Physics recently. You can read about it in full here. Below are the quotes from the prize winners. The emphasis is mine.

Prof Dougherty, winner of the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize, also my Big Boss: "It is a great privilege to be given this award for essentially doing

Comments

[daphnep]

Huh. I was presuming maleness, because of your title (and probably my own implicit bias about titles like Dr and Prof) and reading along thinking “well, these are gracious guys.” Until I got to the 3 women statement. Well played.

Yeah. Wow.

[nanila]

Well, at least his statement looks like the proper clanger it is next to all the others? Yeah, that's all the positivity I can muster about this particular instance...

[meathiel]

Meh ... men never change, do they?

[nanila]

I like to think that they do, and have. It's just that progress seems to be almost glacially slow. But that just may be my seemingly incurable optimism talking, despite all the battering it keeps taking...

[ghost_light]

Siiiiiiiigh....

[nanila]

It is, indeed, disheartening.

[ghost_light]

I just want to trip someone...

[melissa_maples]

-_-

[nanila]

I feel like my face has been stuck in that expression since yesterday.