{"id":5023,"date":"2014-11-18T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2014-11-24T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:29:10","slug":"whats-the-biggest-challenge-youve-faced-as-a-woman-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/11\/18\/whats-the-biggest-challenge-youve-faced-as-a-woman-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the biggest challenge you&#8217;ve faced as a woman in academia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some women the challenges are greater than others.<\/p>\n<p>At the\u00a0<em>Naturejobs<\/em>\u00a0Career Expo in London this September, a panel of four academics got together to discuss their wildly different careers.\u00a0<a title=\"Jim Usherwood, RVC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rvc.ac.uk\/about\/our-people\/jim-usherwood\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Usherwood from the Royal Veterinary College<\/a>\u00a0only spends his time doing research.\u00a0<a title=\"Anita Hall, Imperial College London\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/anita.hall\/teaching.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anita Hall from Imperial College London<\/a>\u00a0only does teaching.\u00a0<a title=\"Lorraine Kerr, Edinburgh\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthsys.ed.ac.uk\/people\/profile\/lorraine-kerr\" target=\"_blank\">Lorraine Kerr<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Louise Horsfall, Edingburgh\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthsys.ed.ac.uk\/people\/profile\/louise-horsfall\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Horsfall<\/a>\u00a0from the University of Edinburgh split their time (with different percentages) between research, teaching, business and management.<\/p>\n<p>In this short Q&amp;A film three of the panellists give their opinions (based on their experiences) about the challenges they&#8217;ve faced as women in academia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s the biggest challenge you&#039;ve faced as a woman in academia?\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UHFSnMMnwsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anita Hall from Imperial College London touches on some of the stereotypical things, including self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Horsfall says &#8220;I feel that it&#8217;s been an advantage&#8221; to being a women in science. But as a junior lecturer this might change.<\/p>\n<p>Lorraine Kerr, with her experience of working across the academia\/industry background. hasn&#8217;t had any challenges, she&#8217;s pleased to report!<\/p>\n<section>Read more about\u00a0<a title=\"How to navigate an academic career\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/10\/29\/how-to-navigate-an-academic-career\">How to navigate an academic career<\/a>\u00a0and about all the other conference sessions and workshops at the\u00a0<a title=\"Naturejobs Career Expo - London 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/category\/njce14\" target=\"_blank\">Naturejobs Career Expo in London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other Q&amp;A videos from the\u00a0<em>Naturejobs<\/em>\u00a0Career Expo, London 2014<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mentors in academic careers\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/11\/06\/how-important-is-it-to-have-a-mentor-in-your-academic-career\" target=\"_blank\">How important is having a mentor in your academic career?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How do you achieve work\/life balance in academia?\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/11\/04\/how-do-you-achieve-worklife-balance-in-academia\" target=\"_blank\">How do you achieve work\/life balance in academia?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Should I apply for a postdoc or a fellowship after my PhD?\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/11\/11\/should-i-apply-for-a-postdoc-or-a-fellowship-after-my-phd\" target=\"_blank\">Should I apply for a fellowship or a postdoc after my PhD?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Have you faced any challenges as a woman in academia?\u00a0Or do you know anyone who has? Please share your thoughts with us using the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some women the challenges are greater than others.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/11\/18\/whats-the-biggest-challenge-youve-faced-as-a-woman-in-academia#more-5023\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/11\/18\/whats-the-biggest-challenge-youve-faced-as-a-woman-in-academia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617,190],"tags":[12,156,64,304,853],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-njce14","category-academia-2","tag-academia","tag-naturejobs-career-expo","tag-stem","tag-women-in-science","tag-women-in-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}