From primary school to academic positions, despite some progress, gender inequality continues to be rife.
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We’ve come a long time since women were deemed too “hormonal” to be sent into space. Yet gender bias is an issue women in the field still reckon with every day.
A new study reveals how female climate scientists are perceived by their peers during media interviews.
A number of programmes now exist that are helping to close the gender gap in African science, technology, engineering and maths.
Researchers are using a newly developed satellite tag to study previously unknown aspects of tiger shark reproduction. This approach could be used on other difficult-to-study shark species.
Nigerian society has drilled into everyone that certain top roles are reserved for men.
The rise in female researchers has expanded our knowledge of female biology in human and nonhuman animals.
One of the most influential agricultural entomologists in history was an insatiably curious and fiercely independent woman named Eleanor Anne Ormerod. She never went to school - nor was she paid for her work.
In an age when women were rarely allowed in observatories, Margaret Burbidge changed how we saw the stars.
Dorothy Hodgkin’s work on X-ray crystallography made it possible to understand how penicillin, insulin and many other molecules work.
The Bank of England wants a scientist for the new £50 note.
New research shows children’s images of scientists are all too often male.
Scientists can be powerful influencers and role models. So there’s reason for concern when the same names and faces dominate coverage and visibility.
This is what happens when we stop assuming audiences can’t handle female-led sci-fi films.
Canada’s female scientists are superstars in their fields yet most Canadians have never heard of them. On International Day for Women in Science, it’s time to give them the recognition they deserve.
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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