This week's picks!

If you're in the mood for some non-stop reading action, you're in luck! February 11th was Women in STEM day, so we've got an extra dose of articles for you to peruse. Additionally, are you on Twitter? What a coincidence, so are we! Follow us! @pwnWomenInSTEM

First, have you considered the gender bias that persists when it comes to conference speaker lineups?
This article in Science delves into this issue, and reminds us of 500 Women Scientists, a database listing women scientists by their respective fields (it's super cool and you should sign up!). This way, there is never an excuse that a woman scientist couldn't be found as a conference speaker.

For all the intellectual feats that we face being in STEM, you would think that those at the top in leadership positions would be knowledgeable and sensitive to sexual harassment, particularly in the midst of the #MeToo movement. However, more and more evidence is piling up that this is not the case. There is the misguided notion that sexual harassment only occurs in the bedroom and is an explicitly physical, sexual action. It's not! There is so much more that needs to be taken into account. Read on here about what we need to know, and what needs to be done. Sexual harassment is not biased to any particular discipline; we experience it in STEM, too. This is also a contributing factor to why women in STEM face huge disadvantages. Meet the neuroscientist who is combating sexual harassment and "harassholes" while having her own job at risk.

Another story, by the San Francisco Chronicle, brings up an issue we've discussed in previous updates: female scientists not being given the credit they're owed. Read more about what women scientists of the past have actually contributed, and how we can tackle this subject moving forward.

Here, we have an encouraging question: Is This the Year Of Women in Science? With more and more women enrolling in STEM majors, we have a lot of great things to look forward to. This dataset from the EU reflects the proportional increase of women in STEM highlighted in countries like Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Latvia.

Do you remember Jess Wade, the physicist who took to Wikipedia and wrote 500 biographies of female scientists? Here is an update written by her on why she felt compelled to author those hundreds of entries.