There was an interesting post in the The Bay Area blog (New York Times) yesterday: Math, Tech and the Women Who Don’t Love Them. The post discusses the “persistent gender gap” of women in engineering, technology, and science careers and the work that Dr. Sally K. Ride is involved with in this area. Other related resources: We [...]
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Young women and science
December 29th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:Information, interesting, NSF, science, women
That’s “Dr. Little Missy” to You
September 13th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
I ran across an interesting blog post from Dr. Isis over at On Becoming a Laboratory and Domestic Goddess. Definitely worth a read. These issues are more complicated than students being simply ignorant of naming and title conventions. They reflect what is regarded as “normal” in the ivory tower. A white male scientist may feel [...]
Women in Science
August 13th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
I was reading through the Academic Women’s Network statistics site at Washington University School of Medicine and came across a surprising statistic: of the 159 endowed professorships, only 11 14 are held by women. Reading this inspired me to collect some of my favorite resources into a list to share. The EMBO Women in Science [...]
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Changing the Face of Medicine
August 12th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Becker Medical Library and the Academic Women’s Network at Washington University School of Medicine are currently hosting a traveling exhibition, “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians.” The exhibit tells the story of many of the struggles American women have faced over the past 200 years as they work to gain access to [...]
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