Sentences with phrase «of women in science»

The research community also thinks the budget could include new efforts to support young and Indigenous researchers, as well as help advance the role of women in science.

In recent decades, policymakers, research organizations, and funders of science have made efforts to increase the participation of women in science teams, leadership roles, and evaluation panels.

Now consider these issues in light of the under - representation of women in science and engineering jobs and in academic positions in research universities in mathematics and science.

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.

Now she's determined to highlight the issue of women in science in an unusual medium.

It's important to show the achievements of women in science through the media because it avoids the myth that there are not so many women involved in science careers.

The committee's Rising Star Award, established in 2011, highlights the roles of women in chemistry and promotes retention of women in science.

Putting aside racial differences, the report illustrates some of the barriers that affect all types of women in science.

Following her address, which received a positive audience response, she participated in a panel discussion on the barriers and challenges of women in science.

The game highlighted the achievements of women in science throughout the years.

With the help of women in science and technology, these girls began to develop a new vision of what it means to be a scientist.

The program aims at increasing the influence and impact of women in the sciences.

The bank got one thing right, he says: It tried to promote the role of women in science.

But implementing food and water security through sound policy, investing in higher education, fighting to eradicate poverty and promoting stronger participation of women in science are likewise urgent.

We are making visible the contribution of women programmers to the foundation of population and evolutionary genetics, in order to counteract the cycle of low retention of women in science.

«We haven't solved the problem of underrepresentation of women in the sciences,» she says, «and I wouldn't want people to think that this paper demonstrates that we have solved it.»

She is an event coordinator for the Association of Women in Science, Massachusetts Chapter, and is on the organizing committee of YaleWomen in Boston.

I recommend Natalie Angier's excellent article yesterday in the New York Times about the status of women in science careers.

Dresselhaus, who has long championed the cause of women in science, used the $ 1 million award to create an endowment fund for «women or junior members of the faculty» at MIT.

The Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship, named in honour of the Nobel prizewinning British chemist, was set up following a study of women in science commissioned by the Office of Science and Technology.

«We're pleased to join in L'Oréal to work in the removal of the barriers that women face and the full recognition of women in science and engineering,» said Rush Holt, CEO of AAAS and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

Richmond is known for her study of complex surface chemistry, her service on national science boards and her work on the advancement of women in science.

Over the past 40 years, however, society has gradually begun to accept, if not embrace, the notion of the female biologist, mathematician or engineer, and the number of women in science at all levels has increased dramatically.

«Harvard can start having a major influence on the careers of women in science and in academia in general if it makes real changes over the next five years.

She said that she is grateful, not just for the support that she received for her research as a fellow, but for the opportunity to «pay it forward for the next generation of women in science.

The UK has been active in the policy arena throughout the 1990s, with initiatives that have focused both on equality of opportunity in academia and on improving the situation of women in science.

Pipkin delves into the struggle and invisibility of women in science by examining the true story of Caroline Herschel and the fictional accounts of Siobhan Ainsworth and the Seven Sisters.

The tone of the letter was not affected by the writer's gender, reaffirming that both male and female evaluators have gender biases that disadvantage women when they are pursuing traditionally male - dominated roles, says Molly Carnes, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, who was not involved in the study.

«I also saw it as an opportunity to raise the profile of women in science, to increase the diversity of voices and perspectives that make up the «face» of science — my hope is that all young people have the opportunity to see themselves as scientists, to consider science as a career and pursue it if that's where their passions and skills lie.»

I mounted an angry, indignant response and found myself wondering what the past decade of women in science advocacy has really changed.

Not surprisingly, Pinker's ideas have been at the center of some heated debates, most notably a recent controversy at Harvard, in which university president Lawrence Summers offered innate gender differences as a possible explanation for the dearth of women in the sciences.

One of the reasons we have a paucity of women in science is because they spend so much of their time trying to navigate through workplaces shaped by subtle bias.

Accounts of such tribulations abound, including, recently, Baruch College historian Julie Des Jardins's enlightening The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science.

At the very least, overt exclusion of women in science is frowned upon.

The tributaries were Upsides of Women in Science?

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.

Representative Connie Morella (R - MD), who proposed the bill, was initially struck by the scarcity of women in science and engineering — they make up less than 10 % of the profession.

The long - simmering issue came to a head in January, when Summers made remarks questioning the innate ability of women in the sciences (Science, 28 January 2005, p. 492).

Today, Sheridan works to address these types of issues at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison, as executive and research director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI).

Joan W. Bennett is a distinguished professor of plant biology and pathology and senior faculty adviser to the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

A new report on the current role of women in science presented to the House of Lords» inquiry into «Science and Society» reached a troubling conclusion.

A selection of Postdoc Network and Next Wave articles on the career progression of women in the sciences.

The first is their link page, offering links such as «Distinguished Women of Past and Present,» «4000 Years of Women in Science,» and other interesting but not easily found Internet sites.

It was this very problem that motivated one graduate student, Angela Tate, «to create a time and a place for women students to get together and worry out loud» — the Graduate Student Section of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In other words, says Friend, Harvard lacks a critical mass of women in the sciences.

We hope to remind these students that while the feat may seem daunting, they arecapable of changing the statistics of women in science!