In case anyone reflexively thinks, as I did, "probably making a mountain out of a typo molehill", the author says:
> To be fair, "Kelsey" can be an androgynous name, but female pronouns were used in the original news release, so these had to have been deliberately changed. One of the news organizations that changed my gender had actually interviewed me, in person.
and, heartbreakingly:
> … why does it matter? The women who set the path before I came along had to deal with much more egregious social norms and behaviors. By comparison, these "small" things hardly seem noteworthy. However, even small things add up over time to create an environment that makes it clear when you’re an outsider.
I agree, but most of the pictures look like stock photos or clipart. In my opinion, the first genuine photo are #16 and #19 (in my personalized order produced by Google image search, your numbers may vary). Anyway, the apparent genuine photos also have a good variation.
My complain is that most of them use white coats, so they look like Chemistry/Biology/Medical scientific. I never saw a Physics scientific with a white coat.
Theoretical physics is harder, they look like normal people (i.e. mathematicians) until they start to talk about the real word. I prefer to discuss writing in paper, but for a photograph the only sensible solution is to write a bunch of slightly related equations in a blackboard.
(And there are many other science branches. For Geology you may put someone with a bunch of rocks, but I don't know a real geologist so it may be not a representative image.)
To be fair, this is a blog post, not an article; and I think that the HN title (which is not the blog post's title) is about as succinct an abstract as you can get. (EDIT: I'm sorry, I'm wrong; it is an article on The Chronicle of Higher Education. I think that my second sentence still stands.)
> To be fair, "Kelsey" can be an androgynous name, but female pronouns were used in the original news release, so these had to have been deliberately changed. One of the news organizations that changed my gender had actually interviewed me, in person.
and, heartbreakingly:
> … why does it matter? The women who set the path before I came along had to deal with much more egregious social norms and behaviors. By comparison, these "small" things hardly seem noteworthy. However, even small things add up over time to create an environment that makes it clear when you’re an outsider.