I no longer have
a wheelchair fortunately. The paralysis entirely receded. I've lurked around b3ta for years, but the time when I was ill it was especially useful for a laugh.

And yeah I think scientists have it the worst. One of my friend's tutors still won't look at her in tutorials, or ask her any questions. And if she gets something wrong, she doesn't get reprimanded, it's as though she isn't worth the trouble of correcting
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:29, 1 reply)

Unfortunately,
I was (in fact still am) in a department which contains a lot of old guys who are generally very well respected in their field, but have the age-old problem common to many physicists - they are tremendously awkward in the presence of women. Nobody corrected this whilst they were young undergrads or PhD students, and in the peak of their career, they probably only encountered women as secretaries. I suspect it may be too late for them and we'll just have to hope that subsequent generations will have it beaten/motorboated out of them...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:38, closed)

yeah
just something that has to be endured. I have a cousin who does nuclear physics, and she still hasn't met a woman in the field where she works
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:44, closed)