Sir Tim Hunt comments: just a little bit sexist?
Sir Tim Hunt hasn’t quit because a baying mob demanded it. He’s quit because his university couldn’t stomach the sexism of his remarks about “girls” in the lab.
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Sir Tim Hunt hasn’t quit because a baying mob demanded it. He’s quit because his university couldn’t stomach the sexism of his remarks about “girls” in the lab.
After scientist Sir Tim Hunt says “girls” in labs can put male colleagues off their work, women scientists express their disapproval of his views using the ironic hashtag “distractingly sexy”.
“Science needs women,” says the Royal Society, after the widely-criticised pronouncements of Nobel prize-winning biochemist Sir Tim Hunt, who advocated single-sex labs to avoid “trouble with girls”.
Hundreds more bodies are recovered from a Chinese ship wreck after a cruiser capsized in the Yangtze river, leaving only 14 survivors so far.
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Four large objects are discovered in the Java Sea as Indonesia starts an investigation into the AirAsia airline over a possible violation of its licence.
Investigators searching for the missing AirAsia jet find dozens of bodies, the Indonesian Navy says, as it is confirmed that debris found in the Karimata Strait earlier is from the airliner.
AirAsia flight QZ8501, which went missing mid-flight on Sunday morning carrying 162 passengers, is thought to have crashed into the sea, an Indonesian official says.
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It is easy to assume that Asian people do not play football because they do not like the game – but that assumption only exists because we do not see them playing, writes Jordan Jarrett-Bryan.
Ex-Cardiff manager Malky Mackay’s statement that offensive text messages were “banter” was widely condemned: now the League Managers Association (LMA) has apologised for its apology.