Tim Hunt the victim of self-righteous feeding frenzy, says Richard Dawkins

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8. Report from another board

Amidst much eye-rolling (as already noted in here), the women in one UK lab hung a hand-made sign on the door:

SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC LAB!
NO CRYING
NO FALLING IN LOVE

As for women's progress, I can sure attest to that in the field of aerospace. When I started out, women engineers were incredibly rare.

In one company, we had a woman mathematician/engineer who had several newspaper articles etc. written about her. She figured she would never get hired, so she stopped in and filled out the job app on her way from the beach. Still wearing her swim suit. She married a male engineer who loved cooking and cleaning house. Which was good, because she hated both of those things.

By the time I left a couple years ago, my immediate boss was a woman and so were several layers up, all the way to Vice-President of Engineering Support.

Funny note about that: when we worked in Egypt, the company had to give a man the title of Vice-President even though he had a lower title (Director) and actually reported to the woman V-P. The Egyptians had made it clear they wouldn't take a woman executive seriously, so the company went thru a big charade of using the guy for meetings etc. With his temporary title of V-P.