WATCH: Imagine if a man you work said working with women is troublesome because “they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.” That’s what a Nobel Prize-winning scientist said at a global conference this week. He was well-respected, but now he’s out of a job. Stuart Greer reports.
TORONTO – Following the remarks by British Nobel Prize laureate Tim Hunt saying that “girls” caused trouble for science, social media has erupted.
Hunt is alleged to have said that working with women was trouble as “you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry.”
READ MORE: Nobel laureate resigns post after ‘trouble with girls’ comments ignite uproar
Though he apologized on Wednesday for the remarks he said at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea, he stood by his belief that mixed-gender labs are disruptive. He resigned from his honorary post at University College London on Thursday.
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