Posts tagged ‘women in science’

Opportunities, head-shaking fail, courage, progress, history, cultural criticism, and light fun.

Last week APM’s radio program, Marketplace, did a story with Freakonomics about the patent gap between men and women. Women are responsible for only about 7.5% of patents in the US. That doesn’t surprise me. ...

Science fairs, sexism, academics, empathy, heroines, Mozilla, Python, Rails, more, and a few goodbyes.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Esther Orozco, cell biologist, winner of the 1997 Pasteur medal, and a 2006 laureate of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is E. Lucy Braun, who published 180 articles in 20 journals during her career, but is perhaps most widely remembered for her 1950 book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is E. Lucy Braun, who published 180 articles in 20 journals during her career, but is perhaps most widely remembered for her 1950 book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Fan Chung, leading combinatorics and graph theory researcher, and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego.