UCL professor steps down after saying he was in favour of single-sex labs because girls topple in love with men,and ‘when you criticise them, they cry’A Nobel laureate who said that scientists should work in gender-segregated labs and that the pain with “girls” is that they cause men to topple in love with them has resigned from his position at University College London (UCL).Tim Hunt, or an English biochemist who admitted that he had a reputation for being a chauvinist”,had made the comments at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea, and where he said: “Let me tell you approximately my pain with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab You topple in love with them,they topple in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com