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SUMMARY:What is it like to be a woman in STEMM? Gender bias\, sexual haras
 sment\, and the myth of meritocracy - Dr Meredith Nash University of Tasma
 nia
DTSTART:20171025T120000Z
DTEND:20171025T130000Z
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CONTACT:Simona Pace
DESCRIPTION:Women are underrepresented in science\, technology\, engineeri
 ng\, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) fields worldwide\, particularly in l
 eadership positions. In this presentation\, Dr Nash will discuss her findi
 ngs from an ongoing mixed-methods sociological study drawing on the experi
 ences of 25 women in STEMM fields who were all participants in a three-wee
 k transformational leadership program in Antarctica in 2016. She will use 
 a feminist intersectional analysis to examine the women's experiences of s
 cience leadership\, including challenges they face as women in male-domina
 ted fields.\n
LOCATION: Small Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory\, J.J. Thomson Aven
 ue
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