{"id":1967,"date":"2016-06-02T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:26:12","slug":"on-being-a-woman-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/on-being-a-woman-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being a Woman in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ACCD-WebReport-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1968\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ACCD-WebReport-24-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Wertheim drawing hyperbolic diagrams at the &quot;Reefs, Rubbish and Reason&quot; exhibition, Art Center College of Design, 2012.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ACCD-WebReport-24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ACCD-WebReport-24-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim writes: &#8220;Given the many stories that have been coming out recently about sexual harassment of young women in science, I decided to write a piece about my own experiences with this. It&#8217;s out now in <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/why-is-scientific-sexism-so-intractably-resistant-to-reform\">AEON<\/a>. This is the first time I&#8217;ve publicly discussed what caused me to leave academic science. Since then I&#8217;ve spent 35 years as a science writer, author and exhibition curator, trying to find ways to make the public representation of science more sensitive to, and appealing to women. My work with the <em>Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> project results from this impulse, as did the columns I wrote for 10 years about science and technology for Australian women&#8217;s magazines such as <em>Vogue<\/em> and <em>Elle<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim writes: &#8220;Given the many stories that have been coming out recently about sexual harassment of young women in science, I decided to write a piece about my own experiences with this. It&#8217;s out now in AEON. This is the first time I&#8217;ve publicly discussed what caused me to leave academic science. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}