With weapons ranging from Title IX complaints to online petitions to creating new policies for federally funded agencies, #MeToo has entered the research lab. Many men and women are changing the culture of STEM fields and the stigma that can go along with reporting sexual harassment. Follow the story of Sherry Marts who encountered sexual harassment in Academia, and realized many of her colleagues wanted nothing to do with helping her. Check all this out and more here.
One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her £2.3m winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers. Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of radio pulsars. This was also the subject of the physics Nobel in 1974, but her male collaborators received the award. Check out her story in the article, "Bell Burnell: Physics star gives away £2.3m prize."
Angela Saini’s Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story sparked conversations immediately upon its release. "It is a powerful, impartial and thoroughly researched look at the origins of Damore’s—and troves of other engineers’ and scientists’—misconceptions. Inferior examines both the science and the scientists, delving into how easily bias and motivated reasoning creep into experiments, analysis, and the way we see the world." Check out the article, "A New Front in Fighting the Bias against Women in Science," which takes a look at the culture of science which caused the need for such a book to be written, and how understanding this look at culture and history is important for school children to learn.
Follow the link below to find funding opportunities for women in or going to graduate school!
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