I think we were the only women in the room with science backgrounds and science jobs.
It says something if the men are the ones who are mostly making money and gaining prestige from science, and the women are doing it as a hobby (reminds me a bit of the thing with how women are crafters and write fanfic for $0 and their work is devalued etc). I mean, I don't know if that's true, but it would be sad -- and unsurprising -- if it was!
Although I think the connection between science and SF probably affects it also
I don't understand what you mean by connection between science and SF -- whether there's any discrepancy between the numbers of women who read SF vs. the number of women who work in science or have a science background, d'you mean?
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Date: 2012-06-01 03:59 am (UTC)It says something if the men are the ones who are mostly making money and gaining prestige from science, and the women are doing it as a hobby (reminds me a bit of the thing with how women are crafters and write fanfic for $0 and their work is devalued etc). I mean, I don't know if that's true, but it would be sad -- and unsurprising -- if it was!
Although I think the connection between science and SF probably affects it also
I don't understand what you mean by connection between science and SF -- whether there's any discrepancy between the numbers of women who read SF vs. the number of women who work in science or have a science background, d'you mean?