“Still sexy distracting after a whole day cell culture. Do not even cry this time, so proud! “In the picture at this tweet heaves scientist Lucie de Beauchamp a sigh, dressed in a white lab coat with gloves and goggles.
The Beauchamp is one of many female scientists who play with the hashtag #distractinglysexy playful way to Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt. Who took a few sexist remarks at a conference earlier this week for quite a commotion. He said his problem with women at work is that “you fall in love with them, they you and when you criticize them, they start crying.” He also proposed a solution: separate laboratories. The women are all much too distracting.
The 72-year-old Hunt, a renowned cancer researcher who got in 2001 (shared) Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into molecules that regulate cell division in bacteria, yeasts, plants, animals and humans, later apologized, but took his comments back. Wednesday he resigned as professor at University College London.
The women scientists have not finished with him and his comments. Since Wednesday, when the feminist magazine vCalendar a call placed to do so, they put pictures of themselves at work on Twitter. All very “sexy distracting.”
There are few people yesterday who defended the comments from Hunt. But there is research showing that contact with women (temporarily) reduces the cognitive ability of heterosexual men. Improbable Research , a website – the name says it all – “improbable” (but real) collects scientific research, pointing readers to a Dutch study from 2009. It shows that the minds of men deteriorated after interactions with women, often because they want to leave a good impression
In 2012 appeared -. Again Dutch – research continues elaborated on this, showing that the effect in men also may occur if they were told that they a woman were talking through a computer, even if they only thought of interacting with a woman. Actually have the real contact is a reduced cognitive ability is not necessary.
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