23 June marks national Women in Engineering Day,but this year’s ‘Oscars of innovation’ highlighted a dearth of women inventorsWhen Sir Tim Hunt referred to his “misfortune with girls”, the joint-winner of the 2001 Nobel prize for medicine got into a little spot of bother himself.
The uproar over his comments approximately women – that “three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, and they fall in love with you,and when you criticise them, they wail” – ended in the resignation of the self-described “chauvinist” from his post at University College London.
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Source: theguardian.com