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Sunday, May 24, 2015
In a recent international study assessing stereotype biases favouring men as scientists found that such beliefs were pervasive. The research assessed the beliefs of 350,000 participants in 66 countries. Although all countries exhibited this bias, these beliefs were strongest in countries where few women were in science disciplines. However,... More
Monday, May 18, 2015
The Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) is running a four-part series commemorating women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) for Jewish American Heritage Month. In conducting research on ALS, JWA discovered her 103 yr-old mother-in-law, Rita Levi-Montalcini, was a Noble Prize winner. Read more at Jewish Women in STEM.... More
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) was founded in order to promote women in leadership positions in Universities, Colleges, and technical institutes across Canada. They do so through mentoring, information sharing, and networking. It is a membership based organization to which anyone in an administrative position is... More
Friday, May 1, 2015
Typically gender-based discrimination in academia is expressed in such a way that it is difficult to really be sure that it is discrimination. But once in awhile, something so blatantly sexist happens that it becomes apparent that either we have become very good at covering up a continued foundation of inequality, or that the... More
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Recently, two psychologists, Wendy Williams & Stephen Ceci published an article in PNAS suggesting not only that the biases against women in STEM disciplines were over, but that the hiring biases that exist today are actually in favour of women. Although they also posted the original materials, procedures, and conclusions was pulled down,... More
Friday, April 24, 2015
Sara Sakowitz, a first year biomedical engineering student at Columbia University, and a budding entrepreneur, shares her views on the paucity of young women entering STEM disciplines and her sense of optimism and encouragement. Published in huffingtonpost.ca Thumbnail photo: Gerty Cori, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,... More
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Women might be enrolling in STEM disciplines (or some of them), but they are not staying. Maclean's magazine suggests that women are forced out of STEM because they are discouraged by many small, sexist moments, according to Maclean’s, i.e., “death by a thousand cuts.” Only 12% of Canada’s 280,000 engineers are women, and in academia,... More
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Two female researchers tasked with helping to recognize the top scientists in the country have stepped down from their duties to protest lack of recognition for other women in the field. For the past two year, zero women have been nominated, despite many excellent female scientists and engineers in Canada. Read more…. Thumbnail photo: Marie... More
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