Well, I just wanted to highlight the difficulties for women to make a name for themselves in science even today. I don’t know if Bialik could have become famous if she had remained a neuroscientist and obviously it has been easier for her to do so as an actress (ironically playing a neuroscientist in The Big Bang Theory), despite several publications.
Science and technology remains even today, unfairly, a domain of men, even though without women we would not even have Bluetooth or WiFi…
weariedfae@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t give a fuck about Blossom, if I met a dude in a bar who says he has a PhD in neuroscience and 2 published papers it would not think twice about calling him a scientist even if he currently worked flipping burgers with no plans to return.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I would be more interested in how they managed to get through their PhD without having anything published but their thesis. Most PhD recipients are having to be published 3 times during their PhD alone.
Her first publication appears to be from graduate school.
I mean it’s mostly a semantic dispute, there is no real standardization for the title scientist.