In beauty, the picture is more positive. From trailblazing female founders to the industry ... where she got her start as a scientist nearly 20 years ago. She received her bachelor's degree ...

It is a meditation on the struggle that different women have faced to be recognised as scientists. And also, what a difference it makes when men support them. Still, there is plenty of interesting ...

Marie Curie, born more than 150 years ago, is still the only female scientist many people can name. The double Nobel Prize winner is most famous for her discovery of radioactivity, as well as the ...

The presidential candidate’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher whose egalitarian politics often ...

PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks ...

ACS has selected a few of many distinguished women scientists (some still unknown) in history whose dedication and determination in the midst of gender discrimination led to some of the most important ...

The Museum's new, free Women in Science tour tell some inspiring stories of women in science. Learn about female scientists past and present, their passions, their inspiration and how they got into ...

Dava Sobel, preeminent science writer, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author, joins John ...

Get to know some of the female climate scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their unique contributions to the understanding of the state of our planet and the ...

Until then, scientists did not include women in clinical research trials. Likely not because anyone wanted to keep them out of the studies; no one thought to include them. As a woman, Dr. Healy ...

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Some scientists have expressed frustration about the lack of women among this year’s awardees, particularly the omission of two women who contributed to the work honored for the prize in ...