Primatology is an area of science with one of the highest proportions of women to men
When it came to choosing three people whom he’d send to live with the great apes, legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey picked three women — very consciously, according to Jane Goodall — to enrich the field of primatology. “I was really lucky,” she says, “because Louis Leakey believed that women would make better observers in the field than men. He thought that they would be more patient.
Scientists have to spend months with the animals before they grow accustomed to a human’s presence, and fieldwork is often carried out in countries that are war-torn or politically unstable. In the latter case, however, being a female researcher can have its advantages. “Being a woman helped me in practical ways,” Goodall wrote in a“White males were still perceived as something of a threat, whereas I as a mere woman was not.
She feels that to gain the most scientific perspective, other groups underrepresented in the field should become primate observers, too. “What are the questions a disabled person might ask? What are the questions a person of colour might want to ask? Or a gay woman or man might want to ask? A lot of these are being ignored, I think."
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