Daer Adam, David et al,
I'd appreciate your thoughts about the
issue of gender balance at UKHEN seminars. I'm
not raising this issue in a mechanistic
'politically correct' way (though I fully
subscribe to a norm of balanced representation
of all interest groups wherever possible);
rather, my concern is about adequacy
of 'intellectual representation'. Having recently
received the programme for the November 11th
seminar on ethics I am concerned that the three
contributing authors, the three session chairs
and the six discussants are all male. I would
suggest that not only ethics but also the other
two seminar topics - economics and political
science - are disciplines whose core knowledge
base is heavily gendered. If I'm correct, there
will by definition be a serious lack of balance in
the seminar. this issue is also of more general
relevance to UKHEN seminars.
I would welcome the thoughts of network members.
Best wishes, Alex Scott-Samuel
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