At the very highest ranks of Australian research the gender situation is nothing short of dreadful, says Bryan Gaensler (second right).
By Professor Bryan Gaensler. First published in The Australian. April 2013 - Scientists strive always to be fair and impartial in their research. But there's one aspect of our work that is rife with bias and subjectivity. The issue is not our experiments or our publications but our gender distribution, which in most fields remains staunchly and overwhelmingly male. The first-year university students of 2013 are assured that things are better now, that the gender balance of the people in their lecture theatre is healthy, and that it will simply take time for these numbers to propagate their way up to more senior levels. But the classes of 2003 and 1993 were told the same thing, and very little has changed.
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