diversity

Leaky pipeline

When we talk about the “leaky pipeline” in STEM we’re talking about women leaving or being forced to leave their chosen profession. Here are three versions of an animation that I made up that I hope helps illustrate the concept. Feel free to reuse. Images are free to re-use without attribution in both commercial and […]

Gendered language in Job Ads

[updated 2021 & 2022] We don’t hire enough women in Engineering and Computer Science faculties.  It’s a peer-reviewed fact. And, yet, hiring committees continue to refuse to use the same rigour and critical thinking in finding a new colleague that they demand in their every-day research.  Where’s the evidence that your ad-hoc, “mmmm…. feels good” […]