A patient with a deletion of the distal portion of the long arm (q21) of chromosome Y is described clinically and cytogenetically. The proband has a normal male habitus but with azoospermia. The proband was investigated because of infertility. Male relatives were also investigated cytogenetically. The deleted Y chromosome was measured and compared with the normal Y of male family members. The results suggest that no Y euchromatin was lost.
It is clear from many of the contributions to this volume that there are career advancement challenges that are specific to women in the science, engineering and technology (SET) disciplines. In this chapter I will be looking at one of the career challenges that face not just women in those disciplines (although the problem here is particularly acute) but women seeking an academic career in any discipline, and that is the gendered nature of its predominant research culture. I go on to consider how the use of Internet technologies (ITs) by academics in their research might be enabling women to meet this particular challenge and whether women in a scientific academic setting have a different experience in this respect from colleagues in social sciences and humanities. Findings are presented from 25 in-depth interviews and content analysis of 750 academic web profiles. Results would suggest that although there are areas where the gendered research culture is being circumvented by the use of ITs for women in all disciplines, yet there are areas where women are not taking full advantage of the potential of the web to increase their visibility and research profile. Moreover, the opportunities presented by ITs are not necessarily tied to discipline and women in SET disciplines appear to be no more or less likely to take advantage of them. Finally in some important respects, the gendered cultures and structures that exist in ‘real’ society are continued into the ‘virtual’ one, rendering the gendered research culture little changed by increasing use of ITs.
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