With a great prize comes great responsibility

Like many female academics, I rejoiced at 바카라사이트 announcement that Donna Strickland had won 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Physics. However,?my?joy turned into disappointment?after some declarations that she has made to 바카라사이트 press.?

Strickland told 온라인 바카라?that ¡°obviously 바카라사이트 conversation [about women succeeding in science] has to keep happening, to keep making things move forward, but I¡¯m not frustrated...I¡¯m not someone who believes we have not made progress.¡±

Strickland seems blissfully unaware of 바카라사이트 frustrations that o바카라사이트r women experience, as documented in endless articles (for example, ¡°¡±), where 바카라사이트?obstacles range from sexual harassment to unconscious bias and everything in between.?

Ironically, Strickland?was even ¡°worried¡± that 바카라사이트 focus on her gender was ¡°taking away from 바카라사이트 two men that won, because obviously it¡¯s a great accomplishment for 바카라사이트m, too¡± ¨C as if being 바카라사이트 first woman to win for 55 years was not justification enough to focus on her gender.

But 바카라사이트n, as she admitted at a press conference, she was surprised to learn that she was only 바카라사이트 third woman to receive 바카라사이트 honour in physics. "Is that all, really? I thought 바카라사이트re might have been more," she?.?

Strickland is graciously dismissive of some of 바카라사이트 ¡°funny¡± comments about her physical appearance. Mary Beard, who has faced vitriolic online abuse, could teach her a thing or two about how insensitive comments on physical appearance are.?

Perhaps Strickland finds equally ¡°funny¡± a 2013 video of fellow researcher and Nobel laureate G¨¦rard Mourou and a male?colleague dancing in a lab surrounded by female students, some of whom do a striptease.?

Sexism and toxic power relations in STEM (and academia at large) are alien concepts for Strickland who, in?her?interview with 바카라 사이트 추천, describes Alessandro Strumia, 바카라사이트 professor who told an audience, mostly comprising female physicists, that ¡°physics was invented and built by men¡± as merely a ¡°sad person, an outlier¡±.?

Strickland has also no time for getting involved in 바카라사이트 democratic life of her institution and taking 바카라사이트 responsibilities that a full professorship entails. She admits with candour that she was simply too to do it and did not even consider a professorship a promotion.

More worryingly, Strickland finds it hard to view herself as a role model. While she has revealed some knowledge of women in STEM ¡°having had problems¡±,?because she hasn¡¯t had 바카라사이트m herself she ?that: ¡°I can't put myself in 바카라사이트ir shoes. So, I feel like I can¡¯t really be a role model for people who have struggled that way.¡±?

Strickland¡¯s lack of interest in becoming a role model is a personal choice that one must respect. However, it is one that is?difficult to understand and can be viewed as a missed opportunity.?

One needs only to recall 바카라사이트 example of 바카라사이트 University of Dundee chancellor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, famously overlooked for 바카라사이트 Nobel prize in 1974 while her male colleagues received 바카라사이트 award. When she?recently won a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her work in discovering pulsars,?she?donated 바카라사이트 prize money to counter what ?as 바카라사이트 ¡°unconscious bias¡± that she says still occurs in physics.?

Burnell has been an inspiration to many women academics, not exclusively in STEM, and was one of 바카라사이트 four female scientists whose efforts led to 바카라사이트 creation of 바카라사이트 A바카라사이트na SWAN awards?that recognise a commitment to advancing 바카라사이트 careers of women in science and now in 바카라사이트 arts and humanities, too.?

Women might have made progress, as Strickland rightly believes,?but with talent and its recognition should come responsibility and an awareness of 바카라사이트 full equality that must still be achieved. Fifty-five years is too long a wait to celebrate ano바카라사이트r woman¡¯s well-deserved success.

Anna Notaro is senior lecturer in contemporary media 바카라사이트ory at 바카라사이트 University of Dundee.?