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What's New in Women
in Science!
1) Interesting reviews on 'Lilavati's Daughters:
The Women Scientists of India'.
2) Abridged translated versions of the essays of 'Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of
India' that have appeared in the Marathi magazine Loksatta have been
put up in our website. Have a look here...
Check the related information appeared in Loksatta.
3) Eklavya Foundation, an NGO in Madhya Pradesh which develops and
field tests innovative educational programmes and trains resource
people to implement these programmes, has published a review of and an
essay from 'Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India' in
Hindi language in two of its publications 'Srote'
and 'Sandarbh' respectively. 'Sandarbh' will
continue to feature essays from the book in its future editions.
4) International
Journal
of
Gender,
Science
and
Technology
A new forthcoming peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by the
Open University, UK and sponsored by the UK Resource Centre for Women
in Science, Engineering and Technology.
5) Women
Scientists at ICTP
This webpage of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
gives an overview of women scientists at ICTP.
6) Post
Doctoral
Fellowship
of
IIT-M
for
Women
IIT Madras has advertised short term (2-6 months) fellowships for
women, tenable in any of the departments of IIT. For the advertisement
click here.
7) 'Mothers in
Science: 64 ways to have it all' - a book by Royal Society.
This book is brought out as part of the project of the 2007 Rosalind
Franklin Award winner Prof. Ottolene Leyser. The book contains the
professional and personal time lines of 64 senior ranking female
scientists working in STEM (Stimulating the interests of young people
in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
8) "Young
Women
in
Science" - a L'Oréal-UNESCO
Women
in
Science
booklet.
The booklet contains profiles of young women who are at the start of
their science careers, who tell their stories of passion and
persistence - what drives and excites them about their work in the
sciences.
9) "Growing a
diverse workforce"
An article in the magazine ‘Symmetry’, a joint
Fermilab/SLAC publication, which talks about the efforts taken by the
three
National Labs of USA – Fermilab, SLAC, and Brookhaven, to train, hire
and retain
women and members of ethnic minorities in the field of Particle
Physics.
10) Gendered
Innovations
in Science and Engineering ; Nature's Body:
Gender in the Making of Modern
Science ; Has Feminism
Changed Science? ; The Mind Has No
Sex? Women in the
Origins of Modern Science
These are some of the
interesting and well known publications of Prof. Londa Schiebinger,
which deal
with Women in Science and Engineering, and Gender Issues in Science,
Medicine
and Engineering. Prof. Londa
Schiebinger is the John
L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University
and Director or Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her
current work explores "gendered
innovations." Gendered innovations refers to transformations in the
personnel, cultures, and content of science and engineering brought
about
through gender analysis.
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