Reflections in Diversity
What Does Gender Have to Do with Physics?
A physics professor and expert in gender equity and equal opportunity advises abandoning a purely objective view of science to address bias.
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The question posed in the title implicitly raises a “positivistic paradox.” Physics is grounded in an objective, genderless description of reality. Yet the history, classrooms and especially the decision making in physics is dominated by men. How is a subject that seems inherently independent of sex and gender so gendered in its culture?
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