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Commentary: Sexism In Science Is No Funny Joke

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A controversy has erupted over an attempted joke by a Nobel prize winning scientist at the 2015 World Conference of Science Journalists held in South Korea last June. It turns out that Science, like the rest of society, has a problem of sexism. In this segment of The Moral Is, Fresno State biology professor Dr. Madhusudan Katti confronts the pervasive everyday sexism in science and challenges the institutions of science to address the structural barriers and cultural climate that keep women out of science. Did you hear the one about the Nobel Laureate who, when invited to a lunch honoring women in science, casually told a roomful of journalists and scientists that girls need to be segregated in science labs because they either fall in love with you, you fall in love with them, or if you criticize them, they cry? Funnily enough, his audience thought that was no funny joke. But when some of the journalists reported it, guess who was the one who went home crying? While that attempted joke

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