Coming from the mouth of a Nobel Prize for Medicine, even after assuming a “chauvinist pig”, there is no way to delete the words that hurt not only a community of women but an entire gender.
“The women scientists distract male colleagues, fall in love and cry when criticized” was the statement of Tim Hunt before an incredulous audience of … women scientists, at a conference in South Korea, on Tuesday.
For the British biochemist, 72, who won the Nobel in 2001 for discovering the protein molecules that control cell division, the fellow should work separately from men and He was keen to explain why.
“Let me tell you my problems with women. Three things happen when they are in the laboratory:. You fall in love for them, they fall in love with you and cry when the criticism, said in a kind of toast during the meeting
“I suddenly said was a chauvinist pig, “said the Independent, Connie St. Louis, a journalism professor at London’s City University, who was at the conference.
“The women were shocked, truly shocked. Some laughed nervously, others were just sitting with hands on head. It was horrible, “described.
The sexist statements of Tim Hunt are to have a negative impact on social networks, where one’s Royal Society, of which Tim Hunt is a member, has distanced himself from the scientist’s statements , stating that “science needs women”. There are those who play with the situation. And so are some of the targeted Tim Hunt, in ironic tone.
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