Engineering is a field dominated by men, despite the fact that girls often do better in math and science classes. With that myth long-dispelled, we can only look at our culture.
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It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change. (Read more...) Delete the scoop?
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Empirical evidence of gender bias in higher education – and the sciences in particular – continues to stack up. For scientists, that data cannot ... Delete the scoop?
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If you got caught up in the “war on women” narrative this election cycle, you might have missed the fact that that a conspicuous number of women were running for the Senate today. There were women candidates in fifteen... Delete the scoop?
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I spoke out about sexual harassment among atheists and scientists. Then came the rape threats. Delete the scoop?
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The largest-ever study of gender in academic publishing shows that women cluster in certain fields, while men get more credit. Delete the scoop?
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The Roominate range of dolls' houses aims to get young girls interested in science and technology. Delete the scoop?
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The New York City-based nonprofit is closing the computer science gender gap. Delete the scoop?
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“I believe that the world would be a better place if half our institutions were run by women, and half our homes were run by men,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has written a book on challenges facing women in the workplace that is expected to be published next year by Knopf. Via Marion Chapsal Delete the scoop?
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Earlier this summer, Marissa Mayer’s career took an unexpected leap forward when she became the 19th female CEO of a Fortune 500 Company. But why was it so surprising? Mayer had all ... Delete the scoop?
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How stereotype threat keeps women from staying in the software industry, and how we can fight it with education, encouragement, and networking. Delete the scoop?
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Wenger from Sarasota, Florida recently won this year’s Google Science Fair for developing a computer program that helps doctors detect breast cancer using less invasive methods. Delete the scoop?
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Melissa McCreery had a good idea for her site, Company Muse, and didn't want to wait for the development team. Delete the scoop?
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Did you know that Ada Lovelace, the illegitimate daughter of poet Lord Byron, is credited as the world’s first computer programmer? Born in 1815, Ada was raised in a strict environment of mathematics... Delete the scoop?
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Engineering is a field dominated by men, despite the fact that girls often do better in math and science classes. With that myth long-dispelled, we can only look at our culture.
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Women continue to be underrepresented at senior-management levels in Asia, Europe, and North America. McKinsey research suggests some answers. A McKinsey Quarterly Organization article. Delete the scoop?
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Royal Society hosts event to redress online encyclopaedia's gender imbalance. To get to the library of the Royal Society in London is to run the gauntlet of male history. The staircase up to the room is flanked by statuettes of men, predominantly Isaac Newton, and artefacts bearing their faces. It is overlooked by a huge plaque listing the 61 presidents of the Royal Society — all men. The library itself is ringed by ten busts of famous scientists; the only female face among them is nineteenth-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer and science writer Mary Somerville.(Read more...) Delete the scoop?
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Royal Society and Wikimedia UK mark Ada Lovelace Day with event to promote work of female scientists... Delete the scoop?
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Leonora Neuffer Bilger was the 1953 Garvan Medal winner and a big influence at the University of Hawaii. Delete the scoop?
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Consideration of sex and gender is woefully lacking in science and innovation today, says Londa Schiebinger, director of the Gendered Innovations project at Stanford University. Until recently, attention to these factors was focused on the problems of bias they could cause. But Dr. Schiebinger sees it in a different light: analyzing sex and gender differences provides new insight that leads to better research and important discoveries, across all fields of science, engineering and design. Via MyScienceWork Delete the scoop?
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None of the executives appointed to FTSE 100 boards this year were women, according to data exposing the gender divide at the top of British business. Delete the scoop?
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Under-representation of women at higher levels of faculty in the biomedical sciences has long been noted.1 However, whereas differences in representation in academic sciences are clear, less is known about disparities in important indicators of research success that might partly account for such differences, such as success in obtaining funding.2—4 For instance, the equity of amounts awarded to male and female awardees has not been assessed. Delete the scoop?
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Women are underrepresented at the top of the health field, including in entrepreneurship. According to health startup accelerator Rock Health, the lion's share of VC funding goes to startups founded or led by men. Delete the scoop?
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House Republicans have not given up on their campaign to narrow access to birth control, abortion care and lifesaving cancer screenings. Far from it. Delete the scoop?
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The average female primary care physician would have been financially better off becoming a physician assistant. Delete the scoop?
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