Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos

Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by Nadya on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:50PM (#9707824)

>"problem with girls...when they are in the lab".

This can be read two ways depending how you parse it.

That is, Hunt says:

1. Women fall in love with men (implicitly, to the detriment of the function of the lab) => problem with coed labs

2. Men fall in love with women (implicitly, to the detriment of the function of the lab) => problem with coed labs

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Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos by dragonwriter on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:53PM (#9707845)

Your reading of "the problem with girls...when they are in the lab" requires the sexist assumption that the default state of labs is to include males, such that that a "problem with coed labs" is a "problem with girls...when they are in the lab", because, obviously, there's always going to be men in a lab.

So, either reading is sexist, though it is true that there are different ways in which it can be sexist.

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