Mar 18, 2005

Decoded language

Posted in Health at 12:46 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Sexism is thriving in Washington science apparently. According to an article in the Post referrring to recent research on Chromosome X: “She was slow to reveal her secrets, but the X chromosome has
now bared it all”. The article, Human X Chromosome Coded, itself is interesting, but why employ such a lewd opening…? It’s certainly got people talking about it on the science journalist discussion groups, maybe that was the aim, but surely there were stronger metaphors they could have used.

You can read a past article by David Bradley on women in science here. Hopefully, sexism is kept to a minimum in it!

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