Stockholm University gender studies professor Hillevi Ganetz examined the rise of Nobel laureates—science’s original celebrity geniuses—for a 2015 article published in the journal Celebrity Studies. The overwhelming majority of laureates are men, she noted; and when women are honored, interviewers ask questions about their clothes, their families, their domestic habits, while the male honorees are asked about hobbies and research. Thus, male laureates are presented as serious scientists with innate brilliance, female laureates as anomalies who succeeded through hard work. “The female genius...…Stockholm University gender studies professor Hillevi Ganetz examined the rise of Nobel laureates—science’s original celebrity geniuses—for a 2015 article published in the journal Celebrity Studies. The overwhelming majority of laureates are men, she noted; and when women are honored, interviewers ask questions about their clothes, their families, their domestic habits, while the male honorees are asked about hobbies and research. Thus, male laureates are presented as serious scientists with innate brilliance, female laureates as anomalies who succeeded through hard work. “The female genius...WW…

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Share this postheated.worldA newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.Over 82,000 subscribersContinue readingSign in Emily AtkinNov 29, 202385Share this postheated.world8ShareI can understand why one might want to tune out COP28, the United Nations climate change summit set to begin tomorrow in the United Arab Emirates. one of the biggest oil and gas expansion plans in the worldgame-changing planmoredangeroushas been able to access and read e-mails to and from the COP28 climate summit officeleaked documentsHEATED is climate journalism supported entirely by...…Share this postheated.worldA newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.Over 82,000 subscribersContinue readingSign in Emily AtkinNov 29, 202385Share this postheated.world8ShareI can understand why one might want to tune out COP28, the United Nations climate change summit set to begin tomorrow in the United Arab Emirates. one of the biggest oil and gas expansion plans in the worldgame-changing planmoredangeroushas been able to access and read e-mails to and from the COP28 climate summit officeleaked documentsHEATED is climate journalism supported entirely by...WW…