{"id":8945,"date":"2021-04-28T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2021-04-28T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:04:26","slug":"earlham-college-screening-provocative-film-about-discrimination-against-women-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/earlham-college-screening-provocative-film-about-discrimination-against-women-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Earlham College screening provocative film about discrimination against women in science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Joseph Moore Museum<\/a> and Department of Biology<\/a> at Earlham College will screen the acclaimed documentary\u00a0Picture A Scientist<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for 72 hours beginning on Friday, April 30. The documentary portrays discrimination against women in science and highlights three scientists writing a new chapter for women working in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The screening will culminate with a virtual panel and small-group discussions at 7 p.m. Monday, May 3, that feature graduates and faculty from Earlham and Indiana University East. Registration is free and open to the public.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking this as an opportunity to bring people together who are interested in changing the culture of science.  We all suffer when STEM research and product design don\u2019t come from diverse teams,\u201d said Heather Lerner, Earlham associate professor of biology and director of the Joseph Moore Museum. \u201cYou can\u2019t watch this documentary and just walk away. This film needs to be seen, talked about and acted on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lerner describes the documentary as a reminder of the reasons women are underrepresented in science and STEM fields. A recent \u201cWomen in Science\u201d report from the Unesco Institute for Statistics<\/a> finds that fewer than 30 percent of the world\u2019s researchers are women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a moment in the documentary where it compares the treatment of women in science to an iceberg,\u201d Lerner said. \u201cThe tip of the iceberg is the visible sexual harassment and sexual assault that women are experiencing.  Then there\u2019s everything else that you rarely see. That includes all of the subtle slights, the small inconveniences and put downs, missed conversations, missed promotions, lost pay and smaller lab sizes for women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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