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Falling in love and crying in the academic workplace: “Professionalism”, gender and emotion.

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Tim Hunt’s remarks on women in science provide a sobering reminder on the everyday reality of systemic bias in the academic workplace. Rachel Moss writes that alongside sexism there is a deeper issue at play, which is about how professionalism itself is socially codified in academia. The ideal worker is intellectually engaged and rigorous, but emotionally restrained. But individuals do not necessarily fit […]