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Transgender Women’s Experiences of Gender Inequality at Work
Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman popularised the theory of “doing gender.” This theory sees that gender identity is something we do – it is a performance and an achievement that people put a...
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Motherhood Penalty in Academia
In late 2014, two sociologists were featured in the New York Times (NYT) talking about the “cultural bias against mothers” in the paid work force. Professor Michelle Budig’s research finds that high...
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Latinas on Screen
Latina actress Gina Rodriguez, star of Jane the Virgin, has won a Golden Globe for Best TV Series Actress – Comedy or Musical! She said in her speech: “This award is so much more than myself. It...
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Sociology of Gender Bias in Science
A new study by Dr Corinne Moss-Racusin and colleagues has analysed the public’s comments in response to a prominent study on gender bias in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The...
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How Informed Science Can Counter the “Nasty Effect”
In September 2013, Popular Science announced that they were closing down their comments section. This has lead to many public debates, including discussions on Science on Google+, a large community...
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Dehumanisation, Superhumanisation and Racism
Dehumanisation, Superhumanisation and Racism Dehumanisation and “super-humanisation” are two sides of the same coin serving a racist agenda. Dehumanisation is the process by which conscious and...
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Migrants in Australia
Migrants in Australia Australia is home to the oldest continuous culture in the world, that of Indigenous Australians, and our society also houses one of the highest migrant populations in the world....
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#SOSBlakAustralia: Colonialism of Indigenous Australians in 2015
#SosBlakAustralia The Australian Government is actively sustaining cultural violence against Indigenous Australians. The Abbott Government is trying to force 150 Aboriginal Australian communities off...
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Rethinking the Narrative of Mars Colonisation
Biologist Dr D. N. Lee has been doing an amazing job educating on how enthusiastic narratives of “colonising” Mars are problematic. On her Twitter, Lee notes that the dominant ways of talking about...
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The Myth About Women in Science? Bias in the Study of Gender Inequality in STEM
A new article on CNN by psychology professors, Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci, boldly proclaims that gender bias in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a myth. Their research...
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Addressing Sexism in Scientific Publishing
Barely a few days have passed since the last gender bias in science crisis, and the scientific community is already dealing with yet another high-profile example of gender discrimination. This time,...
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Ai Weiwei: Pop Art to Protest Art
The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, is currently showing an exhibition of two monumental artists, Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei, whose work and interests often intersected, even...
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Sexism Does not Justify Racism
TW: Rape. Today in White people justify racism: two examples of how sexism is used as racist scaremongering. West Indies cricketer, Chris Gayle, who is Black, was sexist during an interview with an...
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How to stop the sexual harassment of women in science: reboot the system
Zuleyka Zevallos, Swinburne University of Technology This article was originally published in The Conversation The culture in astronomy, and in science more broadly, needs a major reboot following...
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Sociology of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Any time there is an article about vaccine initiatives, a segment of the public begin to shout about government conspiracies and their perception of nefarious science. What is behind the anti-vaxxer...
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Weekends With a Sociologist
Canberra is Australia’s capital city, but you may not necessarily know this if you were parachuted in blindfolded, out of the blue. While Sydney is bustling with tourists and attractions, and...
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Blogging as a Woman of Colour Sociologist
This is the story of my blog, and why blogging became a strategy to make sense of my career and my life as an Other – a woman of colour, the “non-academic” sociologist. I started my blog in September...
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Sociology of Kiwi Foo, an Unconference
On Friday the 11th of March, I travelled to Auckland New Zealand for Kiwi Foo, a two-and-a-half day “unconference” where 150 participants from New Zealand and other parts of the world from a wide...
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Ways to Enhance Gender Equity and Diversity in STEMM
This is Part 2 on my participation in Kiwi Foo, an invitation-only “unconference” in Auckland, New Zealand, that brings together people from broad fields to work on social change (read about the rest...
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Sociology of the National Arboretum
One of the themes of my visual sociology is the representation of science. Conservation is as much about social practices as it is about earth science, biology and other biophysical sciences. Today’s...
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