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Dover Post | Senate passes bill to recognize ‘Hidden Figures’ women
Science Mag | Spurred by sexual misconduct, grad student ‘zine’ documents efforts to improve department culture
Let our research and expertise inform your next big story. But a few years ago, when Kriti Sharma was in the third year of her PhD, she was shocked to read about a former professor in her department in The New York Times. The article reported on allegations of sexual...
Seattle Business News: Startups Founded by Women Don’t Get Enough Support
Let our research and expertise inform your next big story. To the Seattle Business News, AWIS director of research and analysis Heather Metcalf, PhD, says implicit bias against women shows up at all stages of founding a startup, from the pipeline of women joining STEM...
Daily Tar Heel: Congressional Bill Aims to Combat Sexual Harassment in STEM
Let our research and expertise inform your next big story. To the Daily Tar Heel, AWIS director of research and analysis Heather Metcalf, PhD, said the Association for Women in Science endorsed the Congressional bill introduced by U.S. House of Representatives'...
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Congrats to AWIS Collegiate Member Kristina Correa for becoming @rhodes_trust scholar! "Winning this [goes] against traditional narratives. I’m a low-income student, my parents are [Mexican] immigrants from & I'm a #womaninSTEM," said the @Stanford senior. https://t.co/8CHrdiBDbg
"Can you name a female scientist from history?"
Claire Jones, of @LivUni, has an interesting @ConversationEDU article on the erasure of women from the history of science https://t.co/ersw9E8tJd
The stats for the United States are arguably just as medieval: According to the 2017 American College President Survey, women comprised only 30% of college presidents across the country based on numbers reported for 2016. #Womenofcolor make up a far lower portion: a mere 5%.
@AlFanarMedia @InfoTimes_ @AWISNational @unwomenarabic @womeninhighered @IWFglobal That’s not surprising, surely? Terrible, mediaeval, and depressing, but not surprising.
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