Thursday, 9 July 2009

Senior researcher = d00d

Catching up on emails through a slow wireless (but wifi!) on board MS Baltic Queen. Celebrating 'yys'ovd's TdF victory nothing could impair my mood this evening. Or so I thought. 'Cause look what one of the professional email lists I subscribe to sent out today. Details changed to protect the...ahem...innocent.


Potential position at Government Research Institute in Western Town, Eurocountry

We propose a position during a few years. The candidate must be a senior researcher in a permanent position or not. The candidate will define his [emphasis mine] own topic on smaller and bigger issues of some kind of -ology. The candidate will supervise a Phd and a post doc at some point. Net salary quite a few euros per month. The person who is interested with this proposition should send an e-mail with CV to female.scientist@westtown.governmentinstitute.eucountry before the end of one of the months this year
At least they're honest about the bias.

said hgg at 21:25

3 comments:

  1. Cath@VWXYNot?10 July 2009 at 00:25

    Wow! Did you reply to complain?

    I worked in a job centre in the UK one summer, and this kind of issue came up about once a month. We had to report it, and file all kinds of paperwork with the government... just FYI ;)

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  2. stepwise girl10 July 2009 at 09:03

    Signed by a female scientist... we're all biased after all maybe...

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  3. hgg15 July 2009 at 14:26

    cath; I did!

    stepwise girl; probably just a language issue, but discouraging nonetheless

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