Originally Posted by Austin
Add male misogyny into the mix. If you poke around a bit, you can find that many women who do science blogs will have one or more academic "stalkers" who do really weird things to sabotage them. Add to this the real world colleagues who do the same thing.

Lee Smolin touched on sexism, too. He said that it's particularly bad in physics and that as someone who'd sat on hiring committees over the years, he was willing to vouch for some of the nasty things done behind closed doors.

Val