[Taxacom] Gender equality in science

[Stephen Thorpe]

> 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 <
* well, I wonder! It isn't obvious to me that having problems considered in as many ways as possible increases the likelihood of solving those problems! If anything, it is likely to work against consensus! Apply it to medicine, for the sake of argument. If your hypothetical child was dying of cancer, would you want someone in a team of doctors considering the case to be pushing for a traditional indigenous approach with no scientific basis?

Stephen

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On Wed, 6/6/18, Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Gender equality in science
 To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Received: Wednesday, 6 June, 2018, 12:27 PM
 
 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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