As if another reminder was needed, covid-19 has proven, time and again, that women are very frequently the ones keeping everything running during times of crisis (and also during all other times). It’s also proven that, despite women being both visible on the front lines, and women reporting the high number of hours they’re working both for their jobs and in service of keeping their home life in order, most people will still bend over backward to center the work and experiences of men. Especially when it comes to women in science who are working directly on issues around covid-19.\n
women of color, are doing necessary, lifesaving work, only to be looked over for men who are often less experienced– sometimes not at all – in articles. What’s more, the lack of inclusion of leaders of colour is striking and disenfranchising for minority women scientists of colour, particularly as communities of colour are being hit hardest by this epidemic.
Even within our own institutions, unqualified men’s voices are being amplified over expert women because they have been identified through informal male networks, or have blustered their way in to social media and TV interviews and are therefore perceived as “high profile”.The article goes on to talk about the fact that many of the men who are being pulled in to these higher-profile
conversations, often at the exclusion of better-qualified women, are data scientists from tech-centric fieldsleaders in other areas but are unqualified to be deemed experts on thebe the person lecturing me on virology best practices right now.for the work they are putting in, but also that future generations
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