{"id":89479,"date":"2019-04-12T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/at-various-places-i-have-seen-or-posted-myself-posts-about-helping-equal-out-gender-representation-in-science-and-technology"},"modified":"2019-04-12T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:02:36","slug":"at-various-places-i-have-seen-or-posted-myself-posts-about-helping-equal-out-gender-representation-in-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/at-various-places-i-have-seen-or-posted-myself-posts-about-helping-equal-out-gender-representation-in-science-and-technology","title":{"rendered":"At various places I have seen, or posted myself, posts about helping equal out gender representation in science and technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-various-places-i-have-seen-or-posted-myself-posts-about-helping-equal-out-gender-representation-in-science-and-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An inevitable comment is usually something along the lines of women don\u2019t need this kind of help because \u201cinsert foolish reason here.\u201d The announcement of the black hole image shows just why this kind of action is needed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The soon-to-be iconic picture of Katie Bouman reacting to the first image coming through was posted. Suddenly, the Internet trolls in defense of \u201cmale scientist\u201d broke upon the scene, The goal to denigrate Bouman\u2019s work on the project and turn the real \u201chero\u201d of the discovery to another male scientists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thisgreyspirit\/status\/1116518544961830918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inevitable comment is usually something along the lines of women don\u2019t need this kind of help because \u201cinsert foolish reason here.\u201d The announcement of the black hole image shows just why this kind of action is needed. The soon-to-be iconic picture of Katie Bouman reacting to the first image coming through was posted. Suddenly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,418,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-internet","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89479","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}