Tag archive for ‘female scientists’
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NSF Study on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering provides statistical information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. A formal report, now in the form of a digest, is issued every 2 years. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/start.cfm Nature Jobs blog about how women increase their share [...]
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What’s wrong with making hot scientist lists?
The July AWIS newsletter highlights a list posted online of the 11 Hottest Female Professors in the Country (no link provided because I don’t want to encourage anyone to go there). The list is particularly maddening because it’s being provided by a website called HerCampus: A Collegeiette’s Guide to Life, that is supposed to be [...]
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Mary-Claire participates in roundtable on female scientists
The New York Times presents a partial transcript of a rountable discussion on women in science in which our own Mary-Claire King participated, along with three other prominent female scientists from various disciplines. Here’s my favorite MC quote, on promoting other female scientists: …women can help each other out a lot in this way because [...]
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Speaking up and speaking out
An interesting story at Nature proposes that the lack of female voices in the public media, particularly as representatives of science, is limiting which perspectives are visible and accessible to the public. The author suggests that female scientists first start by speaking up more at seminars and conferences. We have an excellent example in our [...]
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Play highlights Rosalind Franklin’s contributions to science
A new play depicts Rosalind Franklin’s struggle to be taken seriously as a scientist while performing research integral to the elucidation of the structure of DNA. The play is called Photograph 51, after the famous X-ray photograph Franklin took that revealed the double-helical structure of DNA. The Association for Women in Science reviewed the play [...]
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Feministing (and XKCD) highlight women in science
Over at the widely-read feminist blog you’ll find a post highlighting a recent XKCD comic. The comic tackles the issue of using Marie Curie as a token example of a successful female scientist. View the Feministing post here and the XKCD comic here
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Maximizing female intellectual contribution
Discover magazine, AAAS, and L’Oreal recently convened a panel “to explore ways to help the research community—and the nation—make the most of its female intellectual firepower”. The panel included several interesting female personalities, but the most interesting to genome scientists was Joan Steitz. Joan Steitz was James Watson’s first female graduate student and made important [...]
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Erin Cline-Davis Alternative Career WiGS Seminar
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM in Foege Auditorium. Click on title to view poster! Erin Cline-Davis Poster
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Gains, and Drawbacks, for Female Professors – New York Times Article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/us/21mit.html?_r=2
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Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science
The underrepresentation of women in science may mean that discrimination against female researchers is “institutional,” says the Guardian‘s Alice Bell. A new study published in PNAS suggests science is “stuck in the past” when it comes to women and is focusing on the wrong issues in order to get past the problem, she adds. The [...]
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2011 Women in Science and Engineering Conference
High school, community college, and university women are invited to explore opportunities in engineering and science careers at the 20th annual WiSE conference, a day devoted to celebrate women in the engineering and sciences. Women with vision and design on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers come together to research and explore opportunities in [...]
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Mommy Scientist
This popular blog is written by the online persona MommyScientist. While keeping her identity and exact scientific field a mystery, MommyScientist shares her experiences balancing her career and personal life, dealing with difficult male colleagues, teaching, and running her research lab. Posts are more infrequent of late, but the archives are still informative.
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Rosalind Franklin’s biography
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox, Harper Collins, 2003 This biography of Rosalind Franklin seeks to dispel some of the misinformation about Franklin provided in James Watson’s 1968 autobiography. Franklin’s story serves as an example of how brilliant female scientists can be marginalized and ignored because of internal politics and social factors. [...]
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Barbara McClintock’s biography
Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize Geneticist Edith Hope Fine, Enslow Publishers, 1998 This biography, aimed at a juvenile audience, is just the thing for any middle school or high school students you know. Recommend or gift this book and provide him/her with a strong female scientist role model.
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The Door in the Dream
The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science Elga Wasserman, Joseph Henry Press, 2002 From a review in the New England Journal of Medicine: Reading the stories of women scientists who have risen to the top of their profession should provide hope and inspiration to those who strive to make the climb [...]