Read on Twitter
The Bad Paper on gendered mentoring is rightly being trashed, but I encountered a paper which should be shared more widely about women in academic Chemistry when reading for a masters project I'm supervising this year. 1/
This @RSC_CERP paper by Miller-Freidmann, Childs, and @judith_hillier reports the results of interviews with women in academic chemistry who have been successful. It is worth reading. 2/ https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/rp/c6rp00252h
The lit review flags up the way that senior women who have had to adapt to a patriarchal discipline often adopt different practices to women who have been socialised into a less-sexist culture. 3/
The finding which shocked me most was that the women interviewed had self-selected into *new* research subfields. These areas have little history, and therefore are not yet so strongly patriarchal. 4/
Such spaces allow women to reconcile their personal identities with their professional ones. 5/
It is worth reflecting on how recent EDI publications in prominent journals relate to the patriarchal structures in Chemistry. My worry is that they can be theoretically naive, and that this can have dangerous consequences for their (high) impact. /end
