Sentences with phrase «about women in science»

I'm speaking in a special session about women in science — highlighting the great work by members of our scientific community, but also speaking to promote gender equity in a field where, sadly, there are still wide gender gaps.

14:00 on Thursday, September 10, a seminar series about women in science will start to broadcast at Kunskapskanalen.

This interview is part of a series of interviews of the «Women in Research» blog that features young female scientists participating in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to increase the visibility of women in research (more information for and about women in science by «Women in Research» on Facebook and Twitter).

The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer will give a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, will meet more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

Read more about Women in Science: Corrie Moreau, Evolutionary Biologist and Entomologist

Well, if you're talking about what he said about women in science, I think he should have kept that for a purely academic discussion — if he wanted to have an academic discussion about it — and not have done it in circumstances in which it could become public.

MIT biology professor Nancy Hopkins, who has researched and written about women in science for many years, said she walked out on the speech.

Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.

And if you care about women in science, Editas is a winner twice over.

Not exact matches

Amid all the angst about the small percentage of women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders thanwomen who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders thanWomen may actually be better coders than men.

She was a staff writer at a news agency in Nebraska, covering transportation, and worked in South Korea for several years where she wrote about science while freelancing for publications like Women's Wear Daily and Groove Korea.

According to the National Science Foundation, women with bachelor's degrees in math and computer sciences has declined by about 25 percent since the mid-80s, when computer games were aggressively marketed as a boy's hobby.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

I thought about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

What's more, she's also using the day to teach her students about the lack of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Most of the successful women I have interviewed talked about the important role that their parents had played in encouraging them to pursue science and engineering and succeed in a male - dominated industry.

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

Internalizing the language, concepts and communicative norms of a particular field is crucial to the development of competencies in that field (see, for example, P. N. Johnson - Laird, Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness [Harvard University Press, 19831 and George Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind [University of Chicago Press, 1987]-RRB-.

There were so many aspects of this that were interesting — the women - dominated elite profession and the discrimination against men, the way the government intended to use the science in its war, the polarization of society about the science and the practitioners of empirical philosophy... And amidst all of this?

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental sScience, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental sciencescience.

From 1988 - 1991, I collected interview data on the self - and body - images of 40 professional women and homebirthers in relation to their beliefs and choices about pregnancy and birth, and published that study in Social Science and Medicine and elsewhere.

I think this is an example of, when science is on our side, particularly, well I think either way, if it's living or deceased, I, yeah, because I remember the article about the woman in Sweden and I want to say, the donor was maybe in her 60's.

She holds a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and is passionate about pre and postnatal health, continuously studying this field to best serve women and their families in the childbearing years.

Once these vital support people are given a chance to talk about their fears and misgivings, adopting the current evidenced - based science that breastfeeding is awesome; this will encourage them to start talking about breastfeeding knowledgably, realizing, by very simple means, how to support women, not only in their own families, but all women.

Therefore, we need more men to know about the opportunities in the Crown Prosecution and more women to know about opportunities in science.»

These new profiles, from interviews with young women at the start of their science careers, tell their stories of passion and persistence - what drives and excites them about their work in the sciences

She was, and by all measures the event seems to have been a success, but I am livid — about the gender dynamics, and that the organizers, who are supposedly carving out spaces for women in science, seem oblivious to those dynamics.

Harvard president Lawrence Summers» recent comments about women in academic science made headlines.

Gender and Scientific Achievement - Views From the Bench 4 March 2005 Harvard president Lawrence Summers» recent comments about women in academic science made headlines.

If you are already working in Germany but would like to learn more about the research scene, check out «The German Research Landscape» and «Women in Science» listed on the left.

The post I was reading (which I highly recommend) was about the reasons why it's good to be a woman in science (http://bit.ly/1kDJ5zT).

The second in a series of four articles about women scientists in academia, this paper explores the extent of female filtration from U.S. academic science.

Long before educators and policymakers fretted publicly about how to get more young women into science, a little girl in rural Minnesota used her physicist father's laboratory as her playground.

This week in awesome: — Viewpoint: Plug «leaky pipeline» for women in science by Suzi Gage On Tuesday 16 July, about 100 people with an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (also known as Stem) gathered in a boardroom in central London, armed with coffee and pastries.

At a recent event at Columbia University, hosted by the organization Women in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and carWomen in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and carwomen — can make the most of their lives and careers.

The study is correlational and can't identify the mechanism underlying this relationship, but one can imagine that it «could be that beliefs about the role of women in science change as more women enter science, that more women enter science when these beliefs change, or a combination.

Levine said she saw Clark as a mentor and someone who thought a lot about science policy leadership, including «the challenges, barriers and opportunities for women in science and her deep appreciation of the social and behavioral sciences.»

In early 2005 Spelke found herself involved in a hot controversy about such possible differences when she was repeatedly asked for her opinion of Harvard president Lawrence Summers's remarks, made that January, that biological disparities might help explain why women occupy so few places in university math and science departmentIn early 2005 Spelke found herself involved in a hot controversy about such possible differences when she was repeatedly asked for her opinion of Harvard president Lawrence Summers's remarks, made that January, that biological disparities might help explain why women occupy so few places in university math and science departmentin a hot controversy about such possible differences when she was repeatedly asked for her opinion of Harvard president Lawrence Summers's remarks, made that January, that biological disparities might help explain why women occupy so few places in university math and science departmentin university math and science departments.

The report also provides state - level comparisons, insights into the representation of women and minorities in science and engineering, and insight into what the public thinks about science.»

Apart from being dead, to get included it clearly helped to be male (about one in fifty entries are women, reflecting the invisibility of women in the history of science); to have won a Nobel prize (at least before 1980); to have lived and worked in Europe, particularly in Britain or Germany; and to have been immortalised in the name of a law, principle or structure.

Usually people talk about Title IX with regard to sports, but can it help create opportunities for women in science and engineering?

An additional finding, not anticipated by the Institutes, was that female postdocs had specific issues about being women in science.

Also read about women's adventures in science in Space Rocks: The Story of Planetary Geologist Adriana Ocampo by Lorraine Jean Hopping, and Gorilla Mountain: The Story of Wildlife Biologist Amy Vedder by Rene Ebersole.

Concerned about these postdocs and this issue, the Institutes formed the Committee on Advancement of Gladstone Women Scientists to evaluate attitudes and practices toward female postdoctoral fellows and to develop a plan to promote women in sciWomen Scientists to evaluate attitudes and practices toward female postdoctoral fellows and to develop a plan to promote women in sciwomen in science.

Q: Your bill talks a lot about broadening participation in science by women and underrepresented minorities.

Spelman senior and computer science major Simone Smarr said she gained confidence about entering a PhD program from having women professors in her department.

Although the percentage of doctorates awarded to women in life sciences increased from 15 to 52 percent between 1969 and 2009, only about a third of assistant professors and less than a fifth of full professors in biology - related fields in 2009 were female.

She applauds the growing number of black women in her field and her company's approach to advocating diversity: it funds teacher training to help get kids excited about science early on.