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
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 …
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM in Foege Auditorium. Click on title to view poster! Erin Cline-Davis Poster
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/us/21mit.html?_r=2
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 …
