Get ready...................forget about the cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine or climate change
enough worms aren't being named after women
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Parasitic worms have been sucked into the gender bias row after a report claimed the naming of the creatures was sexist.
Around 2,900 species were discovered during 2000-2020. However, of the 596 species named after eminent scientists, only 111, or 19%, recognised women, according to the experts from New Zealand's University of Otago.
And of 71 scientists honoured in the Latin names of two or more species, only eight were women.
Eight scientists who had lent their names to six or more species were men.
"We found a consistent gender bias among species named after eminent scientists, with male scientists being immortalised disproportionately more frequently than female scientists," said the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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https://news.sky.com/story/parasitic...exist-12610468