So I was over on Sciencewomen today (which is an excellent blog I just found), and they have many links to the blogs of other academic women in the sciences. I have looked at several of them, and what I have noticed is a sort of tacit agreement to never mention anything more specific about their work than "science". So the profiles say "I'm a Ph.D with a science degree" or "I'm a woman scientist" or something equally vague. Occasionally someone says "in the natural sciences" or "in a technical field," but never, ever, do they say "I'm a biologist" or "physicist" or "sociologist" or "psychologist" or "geologist" (you get the picture.)
I realized while pondering this that my own profile doesn't even give that much. So here's the lowdown on me: I am a Ph.D student in clinical psychology (I feel like I've broken some rule by not just leaving it at "scientist") and I will eventually join the ranks of these female scientists. Am I not allowed to mention it specifically in the blogosphere?
So, a plea, to any woman scientist bloggers who happen accidentally upon my site (I am well aware that I have very few actual readers, and no scientists to my knowledge): Leave a comment! Let me in on the secret code of women scientist bloggers - why the secrecy?
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I wonder if it might be a privacy concern? Perhaps the fear is that knowledge of their field together with little tidbits gathered up from the blog entries would make the blogger more easily identifiable. I take it the bloggers in question post anonymously or at least pseudonymously (I think I just made up a word).
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