Bias as Barriers
by Females are always connected with such words as “sympathetic,” “tender,” “weak,” and “emotional” from a long time ago, and these tags based on gender have …
Category: 05. 9/26 Gender and Science
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: A Trailblazer for Women in Astronomy
by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born on May 10th, 1900 in Wendover, England. Cecilia Payne was interested in science as a young woman, however, she was not …
Queen of Nuclear Research
by Chien-Shiung Wu was born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China, a small town near Shanghai. Her father was a progressive man who believed that girls should be …
Female Scientists in Public Media
by An interesting fact, I found when browsing online by using the key words such as “scientists + gender”, is that there are many articles and …
Alice Ball, in search of a cure for Leprosy
by Alice Augusta Ball, born in Seattle, Washington on July 24, 1892. She grew up in Seattle and briefly moved to Honolulu for the health of …
Amazing Grace
by Grace Brewster Murray Hopper is not widely known but was a trailblazer in many ways. Hopper was a New York native. She got her masters …