Scientist's Gender Is Switched in Press Coverage
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> To be fair, "Kelsey" can be an androgynous name, but female pronouns were used in the original news release, so these had to have been deliberately changed. One of the news organizations that changed my gender had actually interviewed me, in person.
and, heartbreakingly:
> … why does it matter? The women who set the path before I came along had to deal with much more egregious social norms and behaviors. By comparison, these "small" things hardly seem noteworthy. However, even small things add up over time to create an environment that makes it clear when you’re an outsider.
This appears to no longer be the case, at least for me in the US.
My complain is that most of them use white coats, so they look like Chemistry/Biology/Medical scientific. I never saw a Physics scientific with a white coat.
That's probably a useful niche: stock photos and clip art that represent actual science.
For experimental physics I like the photos of optical tables ( https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=optical+tables+lase... ) and the racks with a lot of electronic equipment ( https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=physics+laboratory+... skip the first 10 images). They look like something you may find in a real laboratory.
Theoretical physics is harder, they look like normal people (i.e. mathematicians) until they start to talk about the real word. I prefer to discuss writing in paper, but for a photograph the only sensible solution is to write a bunch of slightly related equations in a blackboard.
(And there are many other science branches. For Geology you may put someone with a bunch of rocks, but I don't know a real geologist so it may be not a representative image.)