So, I was very excited Francis was coming. But in the last 10 to 15 years, this has really been expanded, and this is actually a great visual of what code-switching is. I say, “I’m Adam.” And I said, “I went to Antarctica with her,” and he just stiffened. All proceeds from our store will UNDERWRITE new short films about combating inequity in science. I decided to go to Boston University to get a master’s degree. I wanted to take all the sciences, which I did, like, took a class in every science along the way. But I never had any. What on earth? It’s funny, a lot of the scientists I think of growing up are actually fictional characters. Who has potential? RAYCHELLE BURKS: Going through college, you know, there were no Black women chemistry professors that I had. And it wasn’t until we got to the field that sort of the filters were off. Not  ? MAHZARIN BANAJI: Okay. JANE WILLENBRING: Yeah. It was probably about 1990, roughly. When I was about ten, my mother got cancer. I have it all prepped…. One man said to me, “You don’t think you could really handle a bigger lab, do you?”. I was doing the measuring. CAPTION: In 2019, Bob Brown decided to overrule the B.U. Who got to make those rules? Those things that sort of got under my skin in terms of my competence and my abilities as a scientist, I never really stopped thinking about those. You code-switch, right? PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. My cover is blown. And this was enormously exciting, because, of course, Jim just thought Francis was a genius. It may not seem like a long time, five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes. NANCY HOPKINS: No woman had ever taken family leave and gotten tenure. Leaving without a Ph.D. meant not applying to be an astronaut. I didn’t go back to the provost, because I was embarrassed. Everyone thinks their work is undervalued and they’re und… Everyone feels that way. SANGEETA BHATIA, PH.D. (Biological Engineer): It feels like a really special moment in time. That’s time I’m not spending on grants, on writing papers, on networking with my peers, on just doing research with my students, because I’m trying to navigate these oppressive systems that people who are not in the marginalized communities, not only do they not have to do that, they don’t even…it doesn’t even register. And it’s not that you take it personally, you just don’t expect any different. I design systems to find those. And then you actually have someone who, you know, like is, behaves completely professionally, values your opinion. It was really something that I didn’t talk about. RUTH LEHMANN: I have this feeling it was a very small room, and half of us were sitting on the floor. And when we got back, I went to the chair of the department at the time and explained all the circumstances. It’s been a while since we’ve been on the beach, huh? You get used to being underestimated. Take care of others. JANE WILLENBERG’S DAUGHTER: Look at that structure on the beach. Nobody. The correction requires action. I would think it’s almost months, definitely weeks. It’s also everywhere. She seemed to just laugh it off. The one thing that I could do to help her the most is to try and make the whole enterprise something that is welcoming to women. It’s such an incredibly blue sky. So, what was this woman doing creeping around in the night with a tape measure, measuring the lab space? She looks very serious. Like, there’s plenty of women in this classroom. JANE WILLENBRING: Dave would start off from that sort of pop-culture reference to just calling me a slut. I was a graduate student at M.I.T. And the shuttle has cleared the tower. I told Adam Lewis, the person who was in the field with me, I had always imagined saying something about how badly I was treated during that field season, and I was expecting him, sort of, to say, “I don’t want any part of this.” And instead he said that he’s always felt guilty about that field season and that he’d be happy to write a letter. I decided right then and there that I wanted to be an astronaut. FORMER SCIENTIST: I just also loved science in college. Missed a step? And then we do all kinds of things to it. And I do remember one night, I was in this room, which I guess no longer exists in the format it used to, and I had my measurer out. That’s really what it’s about. The reagents you made and so forth, they saw it as just a…they could just take anything they wanted, because after all, what were you? PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. and asked to apply for a faculty job. He’d say, “Mahzarin, whatever you may think about turbulence or whatever, that doesn’t matter; that’s your intuitive experience of the physical world. In fact, I enjoyed the struggle and hardship of doing fieldwork, especially when I was younger and my bones didn’t creak so much. This program was produced by WGBH, which is solely responsible for its content. And you’ll have things like, people will call out like, “that’s a ‘manel,’” you know, like all men on your panel. Those are actually more than 90 percent of the sexual harassment. It’s in the nature of this beast that we’re trying to identify. Science is apolitical, right? And then we were just there. RAYCHELLE BURKS: I remember, I was parking in the faculty lot, where you need a faculty sticker, which was on the front of my car, and I pulled into a faculty spot, because I am faculty with a faculty sticker. JANE WILLENBERG: Oh, yeah. RAYCHELLE BURKS: So, we are in Quebec City, for the Canadian Chemical Society meeting. And the woman that I chose was, of course, this woman I had revered for so long, and that was Mary-Lou Pardue. Picture a Scientist is a world-class documentary from an experienced, award-winning crew that tells harrowing truths without sugarcoating, sensationalizing, or objectifying the film’s subjects. Thank you. NEEDS NAME AND HIS IDENTIFIER MAN (National Academy of Sciences Conference/Film Clip): I’d like to welcome all of you to this convocation on a most important topic. These ashes can be dated, and so they’re great to find. 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. COMSTOCK (10th District Virginia, 2015-2019, Republican): The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will come to order. NANCY HOPKINS: It was very scary. And I just decided, at that moment, to just sort of let everything, kind of, wash over me and that I was just going to decide to do something later. It’s not, sort of, an evil cartoon of someone who’s delighting in thwarting the progress of smart women. NANCY HOPKINS: At that time, the problem was women were not listened to, and this was going to be the place where every woman’s opinion counted. But on the other hand, in so many cases, there’s not that justice that happens. PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. When you’re writing them all out, one after another, you know…. I don’t think that most people’s first option is to, you know, go to a reporter and talk about the problems they dealt with as a graduate student. This is a picture of Greta. NANCY HOPKINS: I asked her to have lunch. Now, if you were one of the first people in the world to ever take this test, and you made the test, your first reaction when you take this test should be, “Something’s screwed up with the test.” At least that was my view. Yeah. Are you faculty? With Craig Sechler. a last chance. I’m president of Boston University, and before that was provost at M.I.T. I heard that they existed, though. KATHRYN CLANCY: We scientists do this work, because we want to give the best of ourselves to the advancement of science. I think the higher you go up the ivory tower, the whiter it gets, and the more male and the more hetero, the kind of majority dominant viewpoints come out. It’s objective. So, it was an odd thing. He was a really important person in the field—he even had a glacier named after him—and I was incredibly thrilled to get the opportunity to go. And then, when I came back to be on the faculty in 2005, every step of the way, someone has been quietly watching my salary, making sure that it was equal. So, I sort of straightened up and said, “Oh, well, here, let me show you this. So, I just kept working, and I got promoted to associate professor. Many, many other times in my life, I have jumped to the defense of the weaker person, but with Jane, I didn’t see it. ROBERT BROWN: It was a turning point for me as a university administrator. I finished my Ph.D, then I did a postdoc and then took a faculty position. MARCIA MCNUTT: As the evidence started coming in, it was really clear that there were major discrepancies. And I now recognize Dr. Clancy for five minutes, to present her testimony. ADAM LEWIS: …with a whole bunch of students, and there was this old glaciologist there. 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 really does. But it always impr… I was always impressed with those women, that they didn’t seem to take any…they didn’t take it in on themselves. You know, when I was writing my Title IX complaint, it was incredibly cathartic. Trials are only available for faculty, academic and school libraries. Okay. I think the problem is the nature of a very male-dominated culture.”, ADAM LEWIS, PH.D. (Glacial Geologist): I went to Jane’s house in Mandan, North Dakota. I have less space. It’s not something that they even think about, let alone it being a time suck in their schedule. I don’t think I realized how obsessive I was about it. ADAM LEWIS: Like, I knew, I mean, obviously it was an issue, but it just was like, “Okay, well, Jane’s kind of dealing with it,” and whatever. I view Jane as a colleague and a friend, and so why wouldn’t I support her? ADAM LEWIS: I’d still be going there. It was bullying from day one. College, University and High Schools: Picture a Scientist can be watched through your academic library with ProQuest's Academic Video Online. JANE WILLENBRING’S MALE STUDENT: There you go. NANCY HOPKINS: We were just trying to be scientists. 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. And maybe there are some of you sitting in the audience that are like, “No, that’s absolutely true. 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. It’s a no-brainer, as a neuroscientist might say. To discover that I cannot do that, I think, is profound. You’re like, “I’ll try to ignore that being hit on earlier in the day. So, this was the first experiment we did, really, in zebra fish. You know, you sort of wonder in your life, would you have done it differently? NANCY HOPKINS: And we felt intimidated, as if, somehow, you know, we didn’t belong there. The word “king” and “queen” go together. And it could be Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Harvey, especially Flint. Everybody feels that way in science. Okay? 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. 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. I would have been extremely hard pressed to name a woman scientist of color. JANE WILLENBRING’S FEMALE STUDENT: Jane’s a great advisor. So, look at how he’s doing this handshake and then with Durant, right? When you asked somebody, “Draw a picture of a scientist,” it used to be all men. And I actually started crying, at the time. Yeah, so I was doing these measurements, and I tended to do them at night, because I really thought, you know, people would think it’s very odd. No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or…. Didn’t seem like it bothered her. We’re making inroads, but it’s just too darn slow. But it didn’t deter him at all, and he just went to the next one, right? I didn’t really tell many people at all. So, I was in Europe, and I was at this glacial-conference thing, this E.U.-run thing…. It really creates an environment in which harassment can occur. It is now the Matataua Glacier. She said, “You can go through this, but Dr. Marchant has a sterling reputation, brings a lot of money into this department, and wouldn’t it just be easier if you just finished a master’s degree and left?” And I was floored. HOST OF CANADIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING: The Washington Post, Chemistry World and Scientific American have all featured her pop culture chemistry writing. And the feeling you get as you take this test is one of utter despair. It can be, you know, very majority heavy. Bias comes from normal cognitive processing mechanisms. So, I arrived in September. Picture a Scientist is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. ROBERT BROWN: What the report made us do is own the problem. This test is called the I.A.T., or the Implicit Association Test. NANCY HOPKINS: Fifteen women in the six departments of science and 197 men. MARY-LOU PARDUE: I had seen enough of the kind of things that go on that I really wanted to support her. What took place? They’re opposites in one sense, but they go together because we combine them. RAYCHELLE BURKS: I might as well have more fun, wear silly clothing and talk about zombie chemistry and wear my hair the way I want, not trying to chase this mythology of what a scientist is. I mean, I knew he was being a complete dick to you, but I didn’t know that it was getting to you. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Raychelle Burks to the stage. CORINNE MOSS-RACUSIN, PH.D. (Social Psychologist): I assumed that the study that we ultimately did or something similar would already have been done. We have images of what a woman is like, what a man is like. And now we’ll do the other version. I thought Jim was a genius, Jim thought Francis was a genius, wow, how smart could this guy be? Who is asking the questions and how they’re asking them and who gets supported does determine the field. ADAM LEWIS: Good to see you. I started working in Jim Watson’s lab as an undergraduate. So, it is not something to be ignored. So, there aren’t alternate sources for funding, if you want to do work there. I went to a small, private girls’ school in Manhattan. Left, right, left, right, left, right, right, left, left, right, left, right, left, left, right, left, right, left, left, right…left. In that generation, the word “cancer” was so terrifying. SANGEETA BHATIA: Why do you move away from a profession and choose a different one? People had never really looked at the data in the way that we looked at it as a committee. It was 17 years after the fact. It was covered with moveable debris, so every time I would try to take a couple of steps up, I would just naturally slide down, one step worth. I’m an assistant professor of chemistry. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, scientific visionaries, including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists, provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all. He endorsed the report. 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. What’s gotten most of the attention is unwanted sexual attention, coercion. I expected to fight alone. She’s rated as less competent. The I.A.T. NANCY HOPKINS: You thought no president of any university would ever understand, much less acknowledge publicly. They actually don’t happen very much; mostly you see putdowns. He just needs to look at the data. And so she was terrified, and that certainly made a big impression on me, and I’m sure that’s partly why I was interested in cancer research later on. You were just a technician, I guess. So this was my office. I hope you find this as intriguing as I did when I first took this test. My whole world was disintegrating, and then he, like, grinned at me and walked off. I honestly did not…I mean, I knew he was being a dick. 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. I mean, for me, it was…the future of my life in science was on the balance there. NANCY HOPKINS: For me, it was a conflict that was never to be resolved, even though I loved the science that was happening. 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.”. RUTH LEHMANN, PH.D. (Biologist): They were such high-profile women. Register for the live panel discussion here. It’s all of us. So, I don’t have a choice; my only choice is to just sit down and tell the truth. And I’d keep a chart, and I’d add it up. One thing that’s been really impressive has been how much people have wanted to make change as a result. So, we’re doing a lot of work, but some of that work is actually being undone. After that day with my daughter in the lab, at that point, I realized that, you know, I had tried to create an environment that was very science-friendly for her and done all of the things that women do to try to get other women or their children into science. And I guess, you know, at this point in time, 2019, this email was a few months ago, I just was shocked by this. NASA MISSION CONTROL: Lift off of America’s first space shuttle. released a report on sexual harassment in STEM fields. The things I’m trying to find are usually the nefarious things, so biological and chemical weapons, explosives. There are lots of things I love about the sciences and I love about academia and my job. I’m going to be seen as, like, the angry Black woman trope anyway, but you have to, like, “Okay, how do I minimize that?” So, you spend all this time trying to craft a response or an approach of how to, like, deal with it. This worries me a lot. So, there was Dave Marchant, his brother, and then also a master’s student from the University of Maine, Adam Lewis. KATHRYN CLANCY: And then you have all the stuff that’s underneath. “Sweeping in scope yet intimately compelling.” - Science. Report, I was invited to give so many talks. We do it because we’re told, in implicit and explicit ways, that basically everything you are, from the top of your head to the bottom of your toes, needs to change. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Ph.D.s in STEM Fields Awarded to U.S. Citizens, 2016. She’s less likely to be hired for a lab manager job, less likely to be mentored by a faculty member and given a lower starting salary than the identical male student. And so she’d been graduated for a couple of years or whatever. And that’s because the effect is palpable. And we sort of realized like, “Oh, this is the leaky pipeline. SYLVIA GEYER: And we made sure this meeting was in a remote location, so nobody could see us. 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. Picture a Scientist is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. And so, we’re really quantifying gender bias. I was 16, I guess, when I started. MARY-LOU PARDUE: So, then she and I, we went around and talked to each of the tenured women in the School of Science. NEWS ANCHOR: Flint residents filed a federal lawsuit accusing the city and state of endangering their health by exposing them to dangerous lead levels in their town water. There was no childcare anywhere in the central campus. PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. You can be very isolated. And it’s just pure stupidity. A ton of feathers is still a ton. And I went to the people administering the space, said I’m senior faculty, and I had less space than some junior faculty. Let’s move away from a culture of compliance and towards a culture of change. JANE WILLENBRING: When I heard the news, I was a little bit conflicted, because on the one hand, it was great that he was fired and wouldn’t be able to do anything to other female trainees. It’s going to explain everything that living things do and can do. We describe a student who’s applying to be a lab manager, in this case. It turns out, most people didn’t spend their nights listening to the same recordings of all the Apollo missions, you know, time after time. Picture a Scientist: This documentary chronicles how through courage, perseverance and solidarity, women in the sciences have overcome brutal harassment and institutional discrimination in their fields. Those are in the public eye, and I think everyone would agree we absolutely need to address those. Even now, just thinking about it, you know, that it was this way. MAHZARIN BANAJI: Often people talk about the cost to women. It was pure…I just didn’t open my eyes to what was going on. It’s about the science. I knew it, but it just didn’t seem to bother her. Sometimes, we use kilograms of samples and we’ll end up with just this little tiny thing that will disappear if you sneeze, so we don’t do that. I, I was just interested to see, what is the experimental evidence of whether or not there’s gender bias amongst the scientific community? You can find it anywhere, yes, even in Game of Thrones. JANE WILLENBRING: Yeah, it was hard to navigate. And I remember freezing and thinking, “Uh-oh. So, I have benefited from the work that they did. SYNOPSIS. When I say “I can’t do it,” I mean that I can but with a lot more time and more errors in what I’m doing. So, I was particularly upset by it saying that he had looked very carefully and had seen no bias or prejudice against women during his entire career and, therefore, he was confident that such a thing did not exist. They didn’t teach a lot of math and science to girls in my generation, because people thought girls didn’t like or need much math or science. It was her wedding. And she looked at me, and she was just, like, “You really are a scientist, Mommy.” And then she said, “I want to be a scientist just like you.”. And the classes are packed. SYLVIA GEYER: We all were amazed at the response. It’s not designed for a lot of people’s comfort. Directed by Ian Cheney, Sharon Shattuck. ADAM LEWIS: I mean, I should have seen it more. When they’re exposed to different environments, they have chemical reactions that they’ll undergo.