[Taxacom] Gender equality in science

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 05/06/2018 7:54 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:

>  At the end of the day, we want the best candidate to get the job.
* well, I wonder. And I wonder if in the high-pressure kinds of 
competition that hiring for academic jobs currently involves, if the 
selection process can even remotely identify the "best" candidate for a 
position, since a criterion for "best" might include "not wanting to do 
the kind of self-promotion needed to apply for the job."

But in the case of gender and ethnic-background equality, in a research 
institution it may well be valuable to have folks with as diverse 
points-of-view as possible, just to be sure problems are considered in 
as many ways as possible.

It is said that studies of avian courtship shifted from mostly focusing 
on male combat to focusing on female choice when women moved into animal 
behaviour studies in the early 1980s...

fred  (totally inexperienced in employment).
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