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== Issues == |
== Issues == |
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| − | * [[Invisibility]] |
+ | * [[Invisibility]] ([[Ada Lovelace Day]] was created to counter this) |
* [[Essentialism]] |
* [[Essentialism]] |
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* [[Here with my boyfriend]] |
* [[Here with my boyfriend]] |
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| + | * [[Motherhood]]: scientists are often expected to make their major career contributions between about 30 and 40, exactly the same time as scientists who want to become pregnant and raise young children are likely to devote energy to that. |
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== Incidents == |
== Incidents == |
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* [[Lawrence Summers]] statements on women in science |
* [[Lawrence Summers]] statements on women in science |
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* [http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2007/01/invisible-woman.html Invisible Woman] -- a female science professor is ignored by a distinguished visitor. |
* [http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2007/01/invisible-woman.html Invisible Woman] -- a female science professor is ignored by a distinguished visitor. |
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| − | * [http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/2007/01/distinguished_schmuck_visits_m.php Distinguished schmuck visits, misbehaves] -- response to the previous link, with notes for allies. |
+ | ** [http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/2007/01/distinguished_schmuck_visits_m.php Distinguished schmuck visits, misbehaves] -- response to the previous link, with notes for allies. |
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/index.html Sports Illustrated interviews Summer Williams] -- Williams is an aerospace engineer and also a cheerleader; she said she hadn't realized she could inspire anyone until she volunteered at a summer cheerleading program |
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/index.html Sports Illustrated interviews Summer Williams] -- Williams is an aerospace engineer and also a cheerleader; she said she hadn't realized she could inspire anyone until she volunteered at a summer cheerleading program |
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| + | * John Tierney’s [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/08tier.html Daring to Discuss Women in Science] |
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| + | ** See [http://geekfeminism.org/2010/06/09/the-latest-essentialism-go-round-do-we-dare-to-discuss/ a roundup of responses] |
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| − | == Notable female scientists == |
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| + | *[[List of women in physics]] |
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| + | *[[List of women in astronomy and astrophysics]] |
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| − | * [[Marie Curie]] |
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| + | *[[List of women in chemistry]] |
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| − | * [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] |
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| + | *[[List of women in biology]] |
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| − | * [[Lise Meitner]] |
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| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Randall Lisa Randall] |
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| − | === Chemistry === |
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| − | * [[Irene Joliot-Curie]] |
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| − | * [[Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin]] |
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| − | * [[Ada Yonath]], 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemisty |
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| − | === Biology and related fields === |
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| − | * [[Anita Roberts]] |
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| − | * [[Barbara McClintock]] |
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| − | * [[Christiane Nusslein-Volhard]] |
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| − | * [[Rita Levi-Montalcini]] (neurologist) |
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| − | * [[Rosalind Franklin]] (bio-physicist) |
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| − | * [[Gertrude B. Elion]] (bio-chemist) |
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| − | * [[Gerty Theresa Cori]] (bio-chemist) |
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| − | * [[Linda Buck]], 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine |
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| − | * [[Françoise Barré-Sinoussi]}, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine |
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| − | * [[Carol Greider]], 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine |
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| − | * [[Elizabeth Blackburn]], 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine |
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| − | === Astronomy, astrophysics, etc === |
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| − | * [http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/06/amazing-women.html Caroline Moore], youngest person to discover a supernova (age 14) |
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| − | * [[Maria Mitchell]] |
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| − | * [[Annie Jump Cannon]] |
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| − | * [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] |
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| − | * [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] |
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| − | * [[Caroline Herschel]] |
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| − | * [[Margaret Geller]] |
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| − | === Computer scientists === |
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== Further reading == |
== Further reading == |
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* [http://www.feministing.com/archives/008191.html Girls take top honours at national science contest] (Feministing) |
* [http://www.feministing.com/archives/008191.html Girls take top honours at national science contest] (Feministing) |
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* [http://www.europeanpwn.net/index.php?article_id=139 Women in Science: Leaky pipes, glass ceilings and slippery slopes] (European Professional Women's Network) |
* [http://www.europeanpwn.net/index.php?article_id=139 Women in Science: Leaky pipes, glass ceilings and slippery slopes] (European Professional Women's Network) |
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[[Category:Women in science|*]] |
[[Category:Women in science|*]] |
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[[Category:Communities]] |
[[Category:Communities]] |
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Latest revision as of 05:30, 8 August 2012
Science is a group of fields where women are in a significant minority. Some subfields of science, most famously biological and medical sciences, are beginning to approach gender parity or even become female dominated, although this is not necessarily true at all career stages.
Issues
- Invisibility (Ada Lovelace Day was created to counter this)
- Essentialism
- Here with my boyfriend
- Motherhood: scientists are often expected to make their major career contributions between about 30 and 40, exactly the same time as scientists who want to become pregnant and raise young children are likely to devote energy to that.
Incidents
- Lawrence Summers statements on women in science
- Invisible Woman -- a female science professor is ignored by a distinguished visitor.
- Distinguished schmuck visits, misbehaves -- response to the previous link, with notes for allies.
- Sports Illustrated interviews Summer Williams -- Williams is an aerospace engineer and also a cheerleader; she said she hadn't realized she could inspire anyone until she volunteered at a summer cheerleading program
- John Tierney’s Daring to Discuss Women in Science
Female scientists
- List of women in physics
- List of women in astronomy and astrophysics
- List of women in chemistry
- List of women in biology
- List of women in Computer Science
Further reading
- Girls take top honours at national science contest (Feministing)
- Women in Science: Leaky pipes, glass ceilings and slippery slopes (European Professional Women's Network)