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Stories and Items of Interest About Women in Science
Opinion: Women win a fraction of scientific Nobels. Marie Curie offers fixes.
By Dava Sobel, The Washington Post
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)
Physicist and feminist scholar of science
How Sexist Is Science?
The findings are more complicated than is often reported.
Shepherding the Digital Revolution: Smart Sheep Breeding
By Dr. Ambreen Hamdani
Overlooked No More:
Elizabeth Wagner Reed, Who Resurrected Legacies of Women in Science
Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’
Science mom: UW scientist joins campaign to teach fellow mothers
about climate change
Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say
should have won the Nobel Prize
Overlooked No More: Eunice Foote, Climate Scientist Lost to History
Q&A: Professor Stephanie Diem researches nuclear fusion 'to help save the world'
Poet of the Sea, 1940s–1950s
Most know Rachel Carson for her work on the dangers of chemical pollutants, but the writer’s earlier prose took readers on a tour of a mysterious underwater world.
UW–Madison geneticist named science ambassador
to girls and young women
The Remarkable Life of the First Woman on the Harvard Faculty
Q&A: Institute for Discovery director Jo Handelsman
takes scientific collaboration to a new level
Frances Arnold Turns Microbes Into Living Factories
‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab
How the First Female Dean of N.Y.U.’s Engineering School Spends Her Sundays
This physicist is trying to make sense of the brain’s tangled networks
Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image
A Groundbreaking Mathemetician on the Gender Politics of Her Field
Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win Abel Prize for Mathematics
Meet the Amazing Women of Chemistry
C&EN has compiled a collection of interviews, profiles, and career snapshots
of women in the molecular sciences
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today.
What went wrong?
‘Keep the Damned Women Out’
Fifty years of coeducation at American colleges
How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools
‘Enough Is Enough’: Science, Too, Has a Problem With Harassment
Kavli Prize-winning astrochemist looks back at her career probing chemical complexity in space
Leiden University’s Ewine van Dishoeck talks about building instruments for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the James Webb telescopes
2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
Overlooked No More:
Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe
Breaking Down Barriers to Successful Science:
An Evening with Geraldine Richmond
A Celebrated Physicist with a Passion for Music
Nearly 900 People Have Won Nobel Prizes. Only 48 Were Women.
Why Female Students Leave STEM
With Snowflakes and Unicorns, Marina Ratner
and Maryam Mirzakhani Explored a Universe in Motion
Meet Physics Girl, the YouTuber who makes a living explaining science
Asking "Why" Put Geri Richmond on Track Toward the Medal of Science
President Barack Obama says, "This Is What A Feminist Looks Like"
Eugenia Chen Makes Math a Piece of Cake
How to Navigate Your Career In a Male-Dominated Field
The 'Benefits' of Black Physics Students
Holloway named inagural fellow of AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute
TV's Next Big Star: A Female MacGyver
Naomi Oreskes, a Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate
Madeleine Jacobs: A career is like a love affair
WISL Featured Scientist: Jane Lubchenco
WISL Featured Scientist: Helen Blackwell
Anna Atkins: Google Doodle artfully celebrates a true-blue photographic pioneer
A Radical Journey of Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship: A Self-Taught Victorian Woman's Visionary Ornithological Illustrations
The untold history of women in science and technology
Reflections of a woman pioneer: Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus
New nonprofit supports women in science
Why are there still so few women in science?
A Scientist's Secret Recipe for Success
From the Science History Institute:
Women in Chemistry
Women in Chemistry: An Interview with Supawan Tantayanon
Women in STEM: A gender gap to innovation
A U.S. Department of Commerce report from the Economics and Statistics Administration
A gender gap to innovation: Responding to the underrepresentation of women in science
An article by UW's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in response to the "Women in STEM" report linked above.
Trailblazing black scientist encourages women to follow suit
Michel Martin of NPR's "Tell Me More" talks to Shirley Jackson, president of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and the first African-American woman to run a top research university, about being a woman in a male-dominated field
Fifty years of expanding girls' horizons in science, math
Thousands of Wisconsin women have been influenced by the Expanding Your Horizons program at UW-Madison
Can women be creative scientists?
The dangers of testing for creative ability
Recommended Web Resources for Women in Science
Sally Ride Science:
https://www.sallyridescience.com/home
Association of Women in Science:
http://www.awis.org/
Mentor Net:
http://www.mentornet.net/
Women in Science
and Engineering Leadership Institute:
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/
