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Asked by francisca to Meeks on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist.
Question: How many female scientists are there in your field?
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Marieke Navin answered on 21 Jun 2010:
Hi Francisca, great question. I’m afraid that I don’t know exact numbers. However I will tell you that there are certainly more men than women, but there are plenty of women involved. You certainly are not the only girl and don’t stick out at all. So although it is male dominated it isn’t that much of a big deal. I have never ever seen a disadvantage to being a girl in this field. There are not many women when you get to the top level – professor. This is true of women at the top level across all professions. It seems like at the moment women don’t *generally* get to the very top level as it seems that they put family first. Hopefully this is changing and I think the problem stems from the long hours necessary to have a job at the top level.
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Comments
francisca commented on :
Do you wish to be a professor somewhere in the future?
Meeks commented on :
Hi Francisca I just read your profile and i think it’s great. I hope you achieve your dream of studying medicine, i’m sure you will.
I’m not going to be a professor no. I work as a science communicator now so I have hung up my lab coat! I was really sad to leave research and I really enjoyed it when I was there, but now I concentrate on bringing science to my museum
Tom commented on :
Lots of female scientists in my field (but we still want more).
francisca commented on :
Though I still want to do medicine especially in the gynaecology and Obstetrics field, after talking to you scientista I am definitly thinking of taking physics as well especially concentrating on neuro imaging 🙂
thank you
Tom commented on :
Fabulous! If you vote for me, perhaps I’ll win and you can come to York and “Scan Your Teacher”. Check my profile for more details. I really need your vote to make this happen!