women scientists (like me)

I realize this blog is quite gender-neutral regarding yours truly, the author. This is in part because I like to pretend I’m preserving some of my privacy on the Internet, but mostly it’s a not-uncommon defense by women in science to avoid any possible bias. We have enough problems. There’s an informative piece on studies that show the obstacles women in the fields of science, technology, and engineering from the journal Nature. Among its points:

• Women in science fields had to be about 2.2 times more productive than their male counterparts to be as successful in securing financial support.
• In Canada and the USA, women in science not only had difficulty in obtaining grants but there was also disparity in their salaries, office space, and access to research resources and positions of responsibility.
• A problem is a lack of self-confidence in young women aspiring to be scientists or engineers, in part due to a dearth of senior women scientists in the public arena that can act as role models.
• There is a widespread acceptance of a stereotyping of scientists and engineers as stolidly male.

Indeed, demonstrating that last point, in the description of my post that is included in the current edition of the Tangled Bank, I am referred to repeatedly as a male. 

No offense taken. Maybe I should be flattered. In honor of my "coming out", why not visit a few of my favorite blogs by female scientists:

Living the Scientific Life, the Invasive Species Weblog, and Young Female Scientist (read especially her recent post on the good-old-boys grant recommendation network).

Do you read any other great blogs by women in science?  Let me and the world know by posting them in the comments.

Comments

[coturnix]

Wow! Should I apoligize or not? I think it comes form the way PZ sent me your entry. There was another entrant that I was unable to figure out the sex of, so I carefully crafted my sentence to remain gender-neutral (I learned later that it's a woman - Pseudonymous UNC Student). Do you want me to go back an correct it? It's easy to chamge "his" into "her".

[Nuthatch]

No offense taken! And, no, you don't have to change the entry.