Vasumathy Ravishankar
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science
Women bring emotional intelligence to research, as they are much more emotionally available to peers, colleagues, and students. Research can be stressful for many reasons - sometimes, causes are not directly work-related. It is important to identify and acknowledge it, and a strictly clinical approach to alleviating these stresses may not be entirely ineffective. However, perspectives gained from being more emotionally invested cannot, and should not be shunned as being unnecessary to a research space. Women bring these perspectives and help to create overall happy labs, and therefore do great research!