As a post-doc I started staying late in the lab, so the PI couldn’t get his female grad students alone and openly harass or threaten them as easily. One evening, I got so sick of his flirting and leering at a grad student, that when he tried to walk her home, I offered to break his f’ing legs if he didn’t go home to…

Exactly! I had a first year assistant professor (from a different university than the one I go to) tell me, at the time a 4th year PhD student in the same field that the reason he had a hard time finding a good job is because all the universities wanted to hire women and he was told that he was the most qualified but…

Slightly off-topic, but this comment is funny to me because my supervisor is almost exactly the opposite. He’s frustrating as a research advisor (very scattered attention, fairly absent due to too many outside commitments) BUT he’s extremely outspoken in support of feminist stuff. If another older male scientist says…