Scolding female scientists for embracing Instagram doesn’t solve the gender gap in STEM

Yesterday, Science Magazine published an op-ed about why one woman doesn’t use Instagram for science outreach. The answer, according to this writer, is that women do science communication (or scicomm) because they are forced to by sexism, and, also, these women use too many emoji.This is a shame because the op-ed by Meghan Wright, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, could have been a sharp analysis of gender disparities in science, labor issues, and a specific call for bett