[Taxacom] Gender equality in science

[Michael Heads]

Exactly. Why is 'identity'/'diversity' always assessed by gender and race?
It seems a very undiverse way of measuring diversity. In my experience,
culture and age are usually better indicators of how someone will
behave. E.g. the African students here in New Zealand who were born here
are just like typical NZ young people and very different from students in
Africa.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:55 AM, Richard Jensen <rjensen at saintmarys.edu>
wrote:

> Fred wrote: 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.
>
> I believe it is equally, if not more, important for gender equality in
> teaching environments.  Students of all genders need the opportunity to
> experience courses taught by a diversity of individuals (not only gender,
> but cultural, ethnic, etc.).  The different views, ideas, opinions that
> individuals bring to their teaching provide expanded learning experiences.
>
> Dick J
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > 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...
> >
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*Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand. *Taylor and Francis/CRC, Boca
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*Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Cambridge University
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*Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of California Press,
Berkeley. 2012. www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271968


*Panbiogeography: Tracking the history of life*. Oxford University Press,
New York. 1999. (With R. Craw and J. Grehan).
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<http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC&dq=panbiogeography&source=gbs_navlinks_s>