{"id":170119,"date":"2023-08-20T23:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/opinion-seeking-symmetry-among-physicists"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:25:38","slug":"opinion-seeking-symmetry-among-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/opinion-seeking-symmetry-among-physicists","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Seeking Symmetry Among Physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion-seeking-symmetry-among-physicists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those looking to make their academic departments more diverse, equitable, and inclusive can learn from previous wins and setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion is a popular mantra\u2014but is it important for the future of physics? A resounding yes to that question appeared several years ago in a public letter from more than 2000 physicists. The letter was a response to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who, in a high-profile affirmative action case, questioned whether minority students would bring a unique perspective to physics. But what are the arguments for increasing diversity and inclusion? Some are practical: The change would make more talent available to our profession. Diverse teams of people also perform better than homogeneous ones. Another argument is moral: to have bias, discriminate, or exclude African Americans and other people of color, women, people with disabilities, or sexual and gender minorities is incompatible with basic human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those looking to make their academic departments more diverse, equitable, and inclusive can learn from previous wins and setbacks. Achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion is a popular mantra\u2014but is it important for the future of physics? A resounding yes to that question appeared several years ago in a public letter from more than 2000 physicists. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}