[Watch] Picture A Scientist (2020) Full Movie Online A documentary that looks at systemic sexism faced by women scientists in STEM fields. Maybe it’s just a matter of time.”, And this is something I still hear, “It’s just a matter of time.” And we looked around again senior year, and there was, out of 100 students, seven of us left. MARY-LOU PARDUE: So, then she and I, we went around and talked to each of the tenured women in the School of Science. So this was my office. A skosh of it might be impostor syndrome, which a lot of people get, but I also think part of it is the expectations, sometimes, for speakers from historically marginalized groups are higher. Directed by Ian Cheney, Sharon Shattuck. With the Dave and Jane thing, it comes back to me. I was about 50, and I thought, “There are two choices here.” Either I could retire…but I’m not rich enough to retire and never work again. It’s about doing. The order of things, in in some cases, is quite jumbled in my mind. NEWS REPORTER: Boston University has fired a professor accused of sexual harassment. You get used to being treated a bit shabbily. STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN I.A.T. There was no childcare anywhere in the central campus. and asked to apply for a faculty job. I was going to work with Dave Marchant, looking at the glacial history of a part of East Antarctica. Oh, it’s been a long time. Nobody. PENNY CHISHOLM, PH.D. (Ecologist): Most of us didn’t really…we knew of each other, but we didn’t really know each other. I would see a bus pass and think, “Bus driver, that sounds pretty good.” The things that really got me the most were him telling me that I’m *bleeped* stupid and that I’ll never have a career in science. I am, after all, a woman in science. I started working in Jim Watson’s lab as an undergraduate. RUTH LEHMANN: I have this feeling it was a very small room, and half of us were sitting on the floor. Federal officials joined local agencies in urging all…. And so, she came to the lab with me, and I had my booties, and I was wearing a Tyvek suit, gloves and goggles…the whole getup. They were just like, “Yeah, no. Oh, wow. ADAM LEWIS: Yeah, going to the bathroom. I, I was just interested to see, what is the experimental evidence of whether or not there’s gender bias amongst the scientific community? She’s rated as less competent. And so, we use this idea to argue that if two things have come to be associated over and over again in our experience, whether we know it or not, we will be faster to put them together. I just loved it. Science is apolitical, right? You didn’t show it to me, so I didn’t know. I was admitted, and I could work in the program that I had applied to, but they also had this new professor who had just come in and was going to be doing Antarctic work. It makes me sad. Such a waste of time and energy, when all you wanted to do was be a scientist. JANE WILLENBRING’S MALE STUDENT: There you go. It’s in the nature of this beast that we’re trying to identify. And I remember freezing and thinking, “Uh-oh. NANCY HOPKINS: You thought no president of any university would ever understand, much less acknowledge publicly. I’ll go across the street, have a beer with this, you know, big-name guy.” And then you go across the street, and you have a beer with this guy, and then he hits on you, too. So, it took a lot of time. They’re opposites in one sense, but they go together because we combine them. And instantly I thought, “God, something is…” And he goes, “You were in Antarctica with her?” And I was like, “Yeah.” He said, “So, you were there when all that took place?” And I was like, “What? ADAM LEWIS: I’d still be going there. And I think we should go and see President Vest, because I’ve thought these things for a long time.”. So, I was the first grad student of Dave Marchant. NANCY HOPKINS: But then something really amazing happened. faculty panel’s recommendation. PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. It’s weird, ’cause you’re invisible in that way, but then you’re hyper-visible ’cause people are like, “But why are you here?”. PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. She looks very serious. Fewer than 1 in 4 speakers at chemistry conferences is a woman. RAYCHELLE BURKS: Like Uhura was a scientist. My cover is blown. Maybe she thinks I’m not good enough and that’s why these things are happening to me. I finished my Ph.D, then I did a postdoc and then took a faculty position. And then you walk back to your room with someone who, you know, was your lab mate, and they say, “What did you think he wanted? There’s a whole body of social science that has emerged where this is, actually, no longer a mystery. I’m just in my office one day, just working, and an email pops up. And if you haven’t yet checked out her blogs and podcasts, they make really excellent content for lectures. Report became so well-known. At major research universities, 7% of deans and fewer than 3% of provosts are women of color. So, I was very excited Francis was coming. And it was a woman. Uh-oh. A screening of the film, “Picture a Scientist,” will be followed by a panel discussion. Right, left. National corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Draper. I have it all prepped…. And science is a way to view the world. It was her wedding. You can do genetics in fish, genetics of behavior, and I needed to get 200 square feet of space to put the fish tanks in, and I couldn’t. That’s the kind of crap that, like, that second group of people does. So, I didn’t want to do that. At one point, he decided to just, every time that I had to go to the bathroom, just throw rocks at me, little tiny pebbles most of the time. David Marchant stated that he has never engaged in any form of sexual harassment and appealed the findings to a faculty committee. And we often do it by calling it “professional” or “professional standards.” And what we need to realize is that our so-called professional standards or professionalism, who got to decide that? Your hair, your “ethnic” dress, your mannerisms: they got to go, right? About the Film. It was bullying from day one. This test is called the I.A.T., or the Implicit Association Test. Do you think he was interested in talking about science with you?” How does that make you feel? COMSTOCK (10th District Virginia, 2015-2019, Republican): The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will come to order. She was sitting behind a desk in a fairly darkened room, and it was a big wooden desk. And we sort of realized like, “Oh, this is the leaky pipeline. You know, the subtle exclusions: being left off an email, not being invited to a collaboration where you’re the clear expert, just these little moments that make a woman feel like she doesn’t belong, that’s a really common experience. So, it was incredibly frustrating to go up and down this thing. It’s been a while since we’ve been on the beach, huh? There were four people in the group. So, this was the first experiment we did, really, in zebra fish. I went and wrote the Title IX complaint, the first draft of it, that night. I was doing the measuring. A biologist, a chemist and a geologist lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, overcoming brutal harassment, institutional discrimination, and years of subtle slights to revolutionize the culture of science. And then we do all kinds of things to it. San Diego. So, it is not something to be ignored. It was the middle of the summer in Antarctica, and we walked outside of the camp, because he indicated that he had something that he wanted to tell me. We went from Boston to New Zealand, New Zealand to McMurdo, and then, finally, we go out with all of our tents, via helicopter, into the field. NANCY HOPKINS: It took that group working together to take this problem on. Take care of yourself. It was so embarrassing and demeaning. Not every woman contends with this identically. He wrote this comment, which really is, I think, the reason the M.I.T. So I was accustomed to that kind of struggle, and adding to that with a kind of struggle that’s completely unnecessary and gratuitous was hard to handle and did make me think about quitting a couple of times. So, I just kept working, and I got promoted to associate professor. To discover that I cannot do that, I think, is profound. STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN I.A.T. Now they’re going to wonder, what am I doing here?”. So, any differences at all in our conditions or how the participants react to these two students is attributable solely to the student’s gender. It was 17 years after the fact. SYLVIA GEYER: On the average, the laboratory space for women was significantly less than the laboratory space for men, and it was clear that the women were paid a lower salary than the men. So, when I was a freshman in college, my best friend, who was also an engineer, and we were sort of, like, together through the experience—which I think was really important for both of our retention in the profession—we looked around, and we noticed that the classroom was about half women. But you need to know the research.” And I would say the same to him, because the time has passed now for saying, “I don’t see it anywhere.” And that’s why we should be concerned that anybody who says it’s not happening, or not happening anymore is just made to retract those words, ’cause they can say, “I’m not going to change my behavior, I don’t care about it,” all of that. (President, Wellesley College): The best estimates are about 50 percent of women faculty and staff experience sexual harassment. The Department of Geosciences is sponsoring a U of A personalized screening of the documentary Picture a Scientist between Sept. 18-25. With Mahzarin Banaji, Raychelle Burks, Kathryn Clancy, Nancy Hopkins. Complete the form to speak with a ProQuest sales specialist and request a trial of Academic Video Online to watch. A ton of feathers is still a ton. NANCY HOPKINS: Despite all the progress, and it’s tremendous progress, women still grapple with these problems. JANE WILLENBRING: …it’s like, yeah, that happened, and then that happened, and then that happened. I’m an assistant professor of chemistry. It’s funny, a lot of the scientists I think of growing up are actually fictional characters. A biologist, a chemist, and a geologist lead viewers on a journey through their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from outright harassment to years of subtle slights. Privacy regulations require that we get your consent to continue to collect, store and use the personal information submitted for account creation or collected while using our services. One of the unspoken rules was that you needed to have either a Ph.D. or be coming out of the military as a pilot. Jane Willenbring’s opening salvo in the documentary “Picture a Scientist” is one that still brings tears to her eyes. Even now, just thinking about it, you know, that it was this way. Oftentimes in linguistics, it’s considered between languages, definitely when you’re learning a new language, right? PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. RAYCHELLE BURKS: This conference, like a lot of science spaces, there’s always a bit of discomfort. This is where the power of technology actually can be used to advantage to, in a sense, program our minds to be what we want them to have in them. And I was surprised to see that that study had not yet been conducted. When I wrote that out, I was like, “God, the pattern is so clear.” Some of the things that you tell me and that I’ve heard from other women, I just, it’s unfathomable. FORMER SCIENTIST: I was seven when the space shuttle first went up. You have to, I think, put this whole thing in the context of a university that really prided itself on being a meritocracy. NEWS REPORTER #1: A study of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was launched by female faculty members, fed up with unequal treatment. You need enough of your allies, well positioned, to make something happen. PAULA JOHNSON: We found that consistent gender harassment actually has the same impact as a single episode of unwanted sexual attention or coercion. “Picture a Scientist is the documentary we need to continue the call for action, to continue awareness, and to remind those who would abuse a system, we see you.” - Film Inquiry. MARCIA MCNUTT: Women everywhere could go to their department heads, to their provosts and say, “Why are we not doing this?” And they did. But I think we’re in those very early moments in the science where we’re able to actually get snapshots of what’s inside our mind, of which we don’t know. And so, that’s what put me on the track of, “Must get my Ph.D.”. I was literally in the lab 365 days of the year. MARY-LOU PARDUE, PH.D. (Biologist): From time to time, Nancy and I would get together and talk about things, and so she had wanted me to see what I thought about the letter. Perfect. Inspired by the award-winning documentary Picture a Scientist, our … SANGEETA BHATIA, PH.D. (Biological Engineer): It feels like a really special moment in time. There’s been some cases where I’m like, “Wow, this is wildly inappropriate.” You don’t get to just say what you’d really want to say. They were shocked that someone who’d been harassing women for decades had received millions of dollars in National Science Foundation funding. I said, “I don’t have a gender neutral name, so it was clear that I was a woman when I was applying.” I can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was more or less that the department had foisted me upon him. Meet a biologist, chemist and geologist who share their harrowing – and ultimately rewarding – experiences to advance scientific research and discovery by exposing gender inequalities. Check out ProQuest's new programs for distance research, teaching and learning at about.proquest.com or tell us about your needs by visiting support.proquest.com. This program was produced by WGBH, which is solely responsible for its content. LEIGH ROYDEN: You know, this kind of thing takes somebody who’s passionate, who’s willing to give their life to it, and who has tremendous courage. So, it might be something like phenolphthalein, which anyone who’s watched, like, the crime shows, and it’s like, “We found this.” You know, they swab something, and then it’s like, drop, drop, another bottle, drop, and they’re like, “It’s blood.” And it’s gone from being colorless to being bright pink. You get used to being invisible in the sciences. All proceeds from our store will UNDERWRITE new short films about combating inequity in science. NANCY HOPKINS: We suddenly realized, “Gee, if you get it and I get it, there might be other people who also have figured this out.”.