我對《衛報》關於女孩與科學的偽科學的回應

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只是想快速提醒一下那些在部落格上關注但不在Twitter或Facebook(個人, 部落格)上關注的朋友,克里斯·錢伯斯和我今天在《衛報》上發表了一篇文章,回應最近關於為什麼在美國和英國等地方沒有更多女孩從事科學的偽科學。

偽科學和刻板印象無法解決科學領域的性別不平等問題。”

非常感謝艾德·揚促成了克里斯和我之間的合作,以及克里斯慷慨地邀請我與他一起寫作。快去看看吧!

I am Dr. Kate Clancy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. On top of being an academic, I am a mother, a wife, an athlete, a labor activist, a sister, and a daughter. My beautiful blog banner was made by Jacqueline Dillard. Context and variation together help us understand humans (and any other species) as complicated. But they also help to show us that biology is not immutable, that it does not define us from the moment of our birth. Rather, our environment pushes and pulls our genes into different reaction norms that help us predict behavior and physiology. But, as humans make our environments, we have the ability to change the very things that change us. We often have more control over our biology than we may think.

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