Harassment in the Lab
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sexism has no boundaries, as we're quickly discovering. But what impact does it have on scientific discovery if sexist behavior drives women out of science entirely?
Guests: Jane Willenbring,Erika Marin-Spiotta,Jane Goodall,Birute Galdikas,Emily Temple-Wood,Lauren Gunderson
Interviews: Alone in Antarctica, Trapped With Your Harasser,Sexual Harassment, the Open Secret of the Scientific Community,The Women Who Revolutionized Primatology,Turning Wikipedia Into a Weapon Against Misogyny,America's Most Produced Playwright Is Rewriting the History of Female Scientists
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs, and it's time for a wake-up call. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, this is Jane. |
| 0:11.3 | Hi, Jane. It's Anne. |
| 0:12.7 | Hi, Ann. |
| 0:13.4 | Thank you so much for joining us and for being willing to talk about this. |
| 0:17.1 | Sure. |
| 0:20.5 | Jane Willenbring is a geoscientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. |
| 0:25.9 | But in 1999, she was a student doing field research in Antarctica, part of a four-person team |
| 0:32.3 | led by the prominent Antarctic geologist David Marchant. |
| 0:41.2 | Boston University recently found him guilty of sexual harassment. After Jane filed a Title IX complaint, I should warn you, this is not easy to hear. |
| 0:51.6 | The majority of my Title IX complaint stemmed from a field season that I spent with Dave Marchant |
| 1:00.0 | and two other individuals in this very desolate but beautiful polar desert environment. |
| 1:10.7 | There was a constant discussion of but beautiful polar desert environment. |
| 1:17.5 | There was a constant discussion of how many people I've slept with. |
| 1:21.3 | His brother happened to be in the field with us too. |
| 1:29.7 | You know, I overheard conversations about how he should try and sleep with me and how he'd probably be successful because I was so slutty. |
| 1:32.9 | When we would be having dinner, there would be this crate of pornography that would come out. |
| 1:40.3 | There'd be comments about my breast size compared to the breast size of the model. |
| 1:48.0 | I can remember more than one instance where he pushed me down, sat on top of me, and then spit on me. |
| 1:57.0 | He would throw rocks at me every time I peed for a period of time. |
| 2:02.6 | I would try to hide, and then I just tried to, like, not have to go to the bathroom. |
| 2:10.6 | I actually got a really bad bladder infection. |
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