Joy Wingfield’s blog for International Women’s Day 2016

March 9, 2016

I rarely think of myself as a scientist. That’s because popular images of scientists in my youth used to be wild-eyed souls in white coats and goggles surrounded by bubbling retorts and bunsen burners. The equipment has modernised: micro-assays and computers now but the media still represents scientists as lab-workers finding the inevitable medical breakthrough …