"Boys With Toys" - Was It Sexist?

I was initially rather excited to see that one of my friends and collaborators, Professor Shri Kulkarni from Caltech, had his picture littering my Facebook feed recently.Unfortunately for Shri, it was because in an interview with National Public Radio he had described many scientists as secretly being “boys with toys”. Worse, he had said “You’re not supposed to say that”, which indicated that although it might be controversial, he said it anyway – which is typical of Shri.There are many ways to interpret Shri’s comment, one is that scientists are boys, but as it turns out that is not what Shri meant. read more

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