articles, books, etc. of interest to WiGS and its mission
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 …
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 …
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. …
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/us/21mit.html?_r=2
