This article at the New York Times discusses the severe gender skew in Wikipedia contributing authors. Less than 15% of contributors are female. The result is not only a skew in perspective for the articles that exist, but a severe skew in which articles get created in the first place. …
Here, the New York Times has its take on the National Academy of Sciences’ report on women in science careers (Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering). Although NYT says that the report “recommends a sweeping overhaul of our institutions”, little has changed …
This short article in GenomeWeb refers to an interesting article on a New York Times blog. The most pertinent finding for genome scientists is that women Ph.D.’s who take time off to have children end up making proportionally less money than their M.D. mother peers. If you follow the link …
