... work of female researchers across the NIH community. The book features a wide range of the roles, positions, and contributions of women across the NIH, including but not limited to, clinicians, basic scientists, program directors, policy analysts, computer scientists, epidemiologists, geneticists, and statisticians, as well as directors

... , pure research of one sort or another, they hardly get a mention. There are organisations like WISE (Women into Science, Engineering and Construction) in the UK, and there must be similar organisations in the US, but how often do you hear about them? It's ironic that prizes for women scientists should come from a partnership between UNESCO and a cosmetics company - the L' ...

... , 3:41 PM Out of the 443 Indian scientists in the past fifty years who have received the Shanti ... compare to the seven thousand men who also work for the organization. Women also have a hard time getting positions at the Indian Institute ... Science in Bangalore, making up less than twenty percent of the women scientists employed there. This just goes to show that even countries as technologically ...

... News: Colin Bull began fighting in 1959 to get the U.S. Navy to allow women scientists to go to Antarctica, and kept it up until he won, a decade later. He couldn't understand the Navy' ... Antarctica in October 1969, for a four-month research expedition. The following month, they also became the first women to step onto the South Pole. Today about a third of the Antarctic scientists are women ...

... at significantly higher rates than do men, particularly as they advance. Even in fields such as medicine where women now comprise half of the graduating classes, those entering academic medicine drop ... who are in math-intensive fields. And it also can be seen among women scientists who work outside the academe, such as pharmaceuticals, sales, research. They leave these careers disproportionately ...

... demands, including childbirth, could pull some women scientists from their careers. Women may also be more likely to feel pressures to contribute ... years. This is not an easy career path for anyone, and it may be particularly hard for women. We need to figure out how to make this a more tenable career path, ... Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career AwardUIC ...

... – shows a consistent marginalisation of female scientists and technologists. There were very few females among the recipients of the Young Scientist ... number of females was 17. The academy enlisted more women fellows, and their numbers increased to 51 in 2007. ... morality.” *This is the first of a two-part series that looks at discrimination against women scientists. END/2009. (full text ...

... in society than the dry, dispirited accounts of obsessive compulsive scientists. As for women in science, the accounts below are out of date by 2-3 decades of affirmative ... , I accuse big “Science” of the very thing it levels against religious fundamentalists, and that scientists can be as coercive because of their disciplinary commitment to theory. (Bellarmine may actually have been ...

... t fault anyone in the third group, either- who am I to tell anyone else what challenges to undertake or what they can or cannot manage to do? However, I think some of the women in this group might be scared off from science and/or motherhood unnecessarily. ... medium sized biotech)There are lots of other scientists in industry who are mothers (most of the women over 30 at my company, for instance), ...

... non-existent. The research highlights what many officials at universities already know; support for scientists who want to start a family is limited. Although universities have tried to better their family planning policies, ... details of the policies, and often scientists in the early part of their career don’t even qualify. The magazine The Scientist found that many women expressing their ...