How could science be different? Ask a feminist!

Francesca Vidotto

It is possible for science to be different? Science has already changed, as new perspective on it opened to us. In this essay I consider the perspective accessible from the standpoint of women in science. I review the novelties that such a perspective has brought to science in past decades, and I highlight the conceptual tools that feminism can offer to imagine the science we wish for. The case of women in science provides an inspiration to find effective ways to support other groups that are marginalized currently in scientific institutions, and includes new desirable feature to a future better science.

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Roger Schlafly

So should feminist science try to be objective in the way that men do science, or should they try to create less objective forms of science?

Eckard Blumschein

Aren't countries like Myanmar, Azerbaijan, and Tunisia Muslim countries?
And I can also not imagine Venecuela fostering birth control.
Don't get me wrong. I see science responsible for corrections to predominantly male-dominated behavior including imperialism, violence, and even the reality of stupid male trust in dangerous atomic weapons.
In this context, feminism, líberation of women, and more prudent female scientists are not just a nice hobby but they may hopefully rescue us all.

cristi marcovici

mixing science with sociology - maybe what is considered to be today science is not including some practices that woman are already good at and in the near future it will be better clarified .
intuitions, or other mental abilities that are not in the linear rational realm

ableism, mutants , psychoactive drugs personalities, minds engineering , in the long run?
slowing down science , new religions, different collaboration protocols , different education systems..

or just simply having (active) patience , because things are changing and the results are about to make themself present in the next decades.

Neil Bates

Francesca: Congratulations on co-winning first place! I noticed that women took the top spots. Maybe that is because without any way to tell who was who, the best talent could show through as-is. That talent includes lots of women, much of it still under-appreciated.

cristi marcovici

a problem cannot be solved by the same minds that have created it,

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earplugs || have a higher priority in my opinion,
if i have the resources i will run a campaign to explain it properly do extensive research

if all networks that support each others have the same blindspots there is no motivation for change.

here is no conflict of interest because you have to have a conflict with your own mind , to reject a central parts of existence, your sociability ,language and communication,
if you do that and live for a while a new part of the brain gets to develop/grow/exercise and is helpful to put things in a different clearer perspective, understand how this communication need work.
(maybe i'm not sure100% , only 90% thats why is a debate forum)

it is pantomimic acting exercise, some might have had the oportunity to do it in school ,
but you dont see the implication and consequences, if you dont do it interested enough.

deaf and hard of hearing communities have all the lessons you must research , pay attention about them, read ,experience,interact. by doing.

this is applicable for all languages, no exception [en]
valabil pentru toate limbile, fara exceptie [ro]
das gilt fur alle sprache ,ohne ausnahme [de]

in Romanian my native tongue language there is an overlap of words/ coincidence
the word for to talk /speak is a vorbi - orb means to loose eyesight, to be start being blind

i totally agree/ could not agree more,

in a way, when people use the faculty of a spoken language is a self blinding , hypnosis .