The MOSAiC expedition across the frozen Arctic Ocean revealed problems of gender inequality in scientific field missions. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration); Joshua Fuller/Unsplash(woman); MOSiAC(ship and men in background); Alfred-Wegener-Institut(diagram)
Female Arctic researchers told how to dress
Eighteen graduate students who were part of the epic MOSAiC research expedition to study the Arctic have voiced concern about a ban on “too tight or too revealing” clothes for women on board a research vessel, as well as other sexual discrimination issues. E&E News journalist Chelsea Harvey, who was present when the clothing rules were announced on the Akademik Fedorov ship, reports that women were told that “the rules prohibiting tight clothing were a ‘safety issue’” — implying that this would avoid sexual abuse by men on the ship. Days before, several women reported they’d been harassed. The mission’s chief scientist, Thomas Krumpen, has since said the dress code was not related to the harassment report, was not aimed at women and was not safety-related, reports E&E News.
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