All women in STEM articles – Page 2
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OpinionJacqueline Barton: ‘I want to focus on the good stuff’
The Caltech chemist talks about her life as a New Yorker and female scientific powerhouse
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NewsCurie family holiday home to become a place for ‘women’s Nobel’ prizes
Polish billionaire bought French mansion once owned by Marie Skłodowska–Curie and Pierre Curie, and has plans to convert it into a space for women
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NewsAmerican Chemical Society’s analysis of diversity in its journals confirms an ‘imbalance’
Among journal authors, reviewers and editors, men outnumber women by at least two-to-one
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CareersDriven to succeed in automotive chemistry
Ashley Ogden is the only female chemist and innovator at LINE-X, and hopes to inspire more women and girls to follow her into Stem
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PodcastHer Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict – Book club
The full story of the discovery of DNA’s double helix
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NewsChemistry textbooks still portray men as scientists while women perform domestic duties
Unequal representation in terms of both roles and the number of women featured revealed
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OpinionArlene Blum: ‘Our summit is reduced toxics’
The biophysical chemist on the link between climbing and reducing the use of toxic chemicals
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NewsQuotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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NewsScience and research ‘are dead’ in Afghanistan
Afghan researchers and scholars flee or go into hiding as the Taliban’s return to power sees the science academy and universities closed
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NewsChina unveils new measures to boost the number of women in science
Government announces plans to remove the career barriers women face in research
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NewsGap between number of men and women in science globally is slowly closing
But men are still publishing more papers than women even after correcting for age
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OpinionLetters: July 2021
Readers discuss whether air rifles or bomb disposal techniques are best for dealing with waste chemicals
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OpinionPolly Porter, crystallography pioneer
Marelene and Geoff Rayner-Canham examine one of Dorothy Hodgkin’s mentors, who never studied at school or university
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OpinionSupramolecular community calls in support for gender equity
An inclusive, rigorous strategy for improving equality and diversity
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CareersPlanting the seeds of sustainable science education
Michele Raggio’s non-profit Seedscience supports teachers in developing countries as they grow their own education programmes
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OpinionEugenia Kumacheva: ‘My poetry is in my research proposals’
The soft matter expert on curiosity, collaborators and creativity
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NewsLack of support undermines minority and female chemistry PhDs
US survey shows importance of peers and finances in graduate schools
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CareersUnderrepresented scientists hardest hit by pandemic
The effects of Covid-19 have exacerbated existing inequalities in academia
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NewsPhysical sciences funder wants UK women to go for bigger grants
Just five applications for grants over £10 million received from women since 2007
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ReviewWhat Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Remarkable insights into the life and work of the world’s first astrochemist