This year’s Nobel prize announcements just happened. And, as usual, no women received any of the science prizes. We became curious about the history of Nobel prize awards to women. We looked at the awards for the Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology/Medicine. As you might expect, physics is the worst. Only 2 women have been awarded the [...]
Most male scientists don’t try to be sexist. They would like to support their female colleagues, but may not know what would help. Laura L. Mays Hoopes has an article the website of The Scientist with her advice for men in science to improve the climate for women. The article is focused on things that [...]
Implicit Association Tests are an interesting and sometimes controversial form of psychology experiment designed to measure unconscious associations. As described in Shankar Vedantam’s article on IATs in the Washington Post, The Implicit Association Test is designed to examine which words and concepts are strongly paired in people’s minds. For example, “lightning” is associated with “thunder,” rather [...]
This week is the one-year anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences report “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering.” I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, because it’s essential reading for anyone interested in careers of women in science. The related NY Times article by [...]
The top 5 myths about girls, science and math are discussed in an article over at Live Science. (The article is a few weeks old, but new to me as of yesterday.) The myths are based on research from the NSF’s GSE program - so research backs up the claims in the article. The myths are: [...]