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Science Magazine Uses Transgender Sex Workers As Bait
By A.V. Flox This post first appeared on Slantist Science magazine’s July 11, 2014 issue unleashed a firestorm on social media today. The issue, a special focused on ways to stay ahead of HIV and AIDS,...
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Get out of the Kitchen: Inger Mewburn’s Advice for Academics
Professor Inger Mewburn is Director of Research Training at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on student experiences, which are used to inform University practices. We asked her...
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Nature vs Nurture: Girls and STEM
This article was originally published on the Nature Soapbox Science blog. It was written by STEM Women managers Zuleyka Zevallos, Buddhini Samarasinghe and Rajini Rao. In a New England pub after a...
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Making Space History: Candy Torres, NASA Engineer & Latina Pioneer
Rather auspiciously, we commemorated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing through a Hangout on Air interview with engineer Candy Torres! She gained a degree in astrophysics in the 1970s,...
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Stereotype Threat and the Leaky Pipeline in STEM: Our Interview with...
We spoke with Professor Chad Forbes about his research on stereotype threat and how it undermines the success of women in STEM. Chad is a social neuroscientist in the Department of Psychological and...
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Sexism in Academic Science: Analysis of The New York Times Op-Ed
Here is an examination of the scientific flaws in the recent New York Times (NYT) Op-Ed: “Academic Science Isn’t Sexist.” The Op-Ed authors, psychologists Professor Wendy Williams and Professor Stephen...
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Astronomical Sexism: Rosetta #ShirtStorm and Everyday Sexism in STEM
The world has been abuzz with news that the Rosetta spacecraft landed on a comet 500 million kilometres from Earth, in an attempt to collect vital data about the origins of our solar system. The aim is...
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The Most Important Scientist in My Life: My Mom
By Jonah Miller This guest post is by computational physicist Jonah Miller, who interviews his mother, Dr Arleen Miller, about her experiences getting a STEM degree in the 1970s. Her dissertation was...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
By Kristin Milton Kristin Milton Kristin Milton wants the conversation about “the leaky pipeline” to broaden, and include applied researchers and specialists who navigate gender discrimination in...
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Gender Bias in STEM: A Southern Perspective
By Cathy Newman Cathy Newman gives a postgraduate student perspective on how local culture impacts on the careers of women in STEM, and why it’s important for women students to learn about the...
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Summer of Sexism: Blunders, Blow-ups and Backlash
It’s a bumper season for sexism in science. Earlier this year, the media was abuzz with a startling revelation: sexism in science is a myth! A study by developmental psychologists Williams and Ceci,...
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Promoting STEM Women: How Scientific Societies Can Help
We spoke with Professors Rajini Rao and Gabriela Popescu who are outgoing and incoming chairs, respectively, of the Committee on Professional Opportunities for Women (CPOW) in the Biophysical Society....
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Same Auld Lang Syne: Dearth of Diversity in 2016 American Chemical Society...
Four days into the new year and it’s déjà vu all over again. The American Chemical Society (ACS), which has 158,000 members, just announced its 2016 National Award winners. Once again, gender inequity...
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Is the Gender Gap Solved in Liberal Sweden?
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is a professor and division head of Chemical Biology at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. In this post, Professor Wittung-Stafshede goes beyond the progressive...
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“If You See/Hear Something, Say Something”
Dr Buddhini Samarasinghe is the founder of STEM Women and is a science communicator with a background in molecular biology and cancer research. Buddhini has authored a series of articles in Scientific...
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Solvay Sequel: Nine Women Scientists in the White House
The iconic photograph of the 1927 Solvay conference featured 29 stellar physicists and chemists, including Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. Only one, Marie Curie, was a woman. When Professor Teresa...
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What to do When Facing YAMMM (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting)
When University Of California (Davis) Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Professor Jonathan Eisen, was scheduled to speak at a meeting on Metagenomics in the Era of Big Data, he found himself in a bit...
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Women in Space
Dr Mae Jemison. (Source) This 12 September 2017 is the 25th anniversary of Dr Mae Jemison’s flight on space shuttle Endeavour as the first Black American woman to travel in space. Dr Jemison began her...
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Shut Up, Sit Back, and Listen
Dr. Bastian Greshake Tzovaras offers concrete ways in which men can be effective allies to empower women and promote gender equity in STEMM fields. Our guest post is part of a collection of articles...
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Women Trailblazers in Science
Today we take a look at various women who have inspired us for their trailblazing efforts in science. We start with Dr Harriette Chick, who was a microbiologist, nutritionist and the first scientist to...
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