Women and science

A l'occasion de la première AdaWeek, du 12 au 18 octobre 2015, une série d'événements a été organisée à Paris pour échanger autour de la place des femmes dans la construction du monde de demain. Entrepreneuses, chercheuses ou encore ingénieures étaient au rendez-vous pour témoigner s...

There are women missing: from many scientific disciplines, from academic leadership roles, and now from commercializing the fruits of their research. Prof. Sue Rosser,...

For the last 35 years, Dr. Sue Rosser has studied the issues facing women in science. Her extensive experience with gender balance problems of past and present has give...

Every year, 3.1 million infants and young children die from malnutrition. Dr. Sophie Goudet’s work focuses on the situation in urban slums, where little research...

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Researchers monitoring the effects of climate change in central Africa could benefit from a mobile phone app allowing locals to record data on water collection points…but would it help Cameroonian women carry that water home for their families? Clearly, the objectives of different parties faced with a changing climate are not always aligned. This could accou...

Ann-Sofie Schreurs discovered Space late. No worries, though: that was never going to stop her. By making the choices that felt right to her, she carved out a path leading to her post-doc in space biosciences at the NASA Ames Research Center. And tomorrow, perhaps, onward to Mars. In fact, she just spent two weeks there—or as close as it gets—getting a taste...

PhD student Svenja Kohnemann had the adventure of a lifetime when she lived aboard the ice-breaking research vessel, Polarstern, for four weeks. Living and working in the company of scientists from an array of disciplines, she not only obtained essential results for her work in atmostpheric sciences, but also participated in others' studies of the Arctic world.

Today Women In Healthcare & Life Sciences (WIHLS)—a global, non-profit, non-partisan research institute committed to advancing women in the healthcare and life science industries—announces the launch of a new initiative aimed to encourage research and scientific interests of girls. The Science Runway(thesciencerunway.com) is a website specifically designed to attract young girls to careers in healthcare and life sciences by showcasing women who have successfully created careers in a variety of roles.

A new thematic quarter has begun at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) in Paris that just may help find the fundamental theory of the universe. This

Tech transfer companies have an interest in involving more women across their activity. But, if that’s the case, the same is true—even truer, surely—f...

In addition to engineering degrees and senior academic positions, there’s something else women in science aren’t obtaining as often as men: patents. Dr. Sue...

When a poison contaminates our environment, not only can it pollute the soil and water, it can also be taken up by plants, rendering them—or specific parts of the...

Agnès arrive au terme de trois ans de doctorat de physique. La science ça a toujours été sa passion, mais ce n'est pas toujours facile !

That first whiff of coffee perks up your senses. The smell of mom’s cooking transports you back to childhood. Though we often take it for granted, the human sense...

When Agata was eight years old, she spent more than half a year in the hospital, fighting off a bacterial disease that the standard antibiotics couldn’t beat. Tod...

With interests spanning biology, Chinese language, and the communication of science, Agathe Chaigne could have chosen to pursue any one of the fields. Instead, she chose all three. Her studies have taken her through several prestigious institutions in France, including UPMC's Complexité du Vivant graduate school, to China and back again, and onward t...

It is no secret that science is in great need of more women contributors, so what might be stopping them?

We hear a lot about gender balance in science, but what about gender in the research itself? This point, covered at the 4th Gender Summit, held recently in Brussels, really left an impression on WAX Science, the association for stereotype-free science. Gender bias in research is not just about the numbers, as WAX explains. Learn more about the concept of gen...

By definition science is about progress and breaking down barriers, it is about challenging the norms and innovating change....