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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.

11) Public lecture on "Women in Science: The Lilavati's Daughters Project" by Prof. Ramkrishna Ramaswamy at NIAS
This is a report in the Times of India newspaper about the public lecture on 'Women in Science: The Lilavati's Daughters Project" by Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy held at NIAS on December 16, 2009.

12) "Lilavati's European Daughters"
A blog about a book titled 'Women in Science' brought out by the European Commission featuring the life stories of European women scientists over the centuries. (Check the book Women in Science)

13)
"Why so few?"
A report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) on the study of women's underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.


14) "Bias Called Persistent Hurdles for Women in Sciences"
An article in the New York Times about the AAUW report "why so few".

15) "Women scientists face systemic biases"
An article in The Hindu about the report of the study 'Trained scientific women power: How much are we losing and why?' by the WiS Panel of the Academy.

16) "Time to Hire a Housekeeper?"
An article in the magazine Science on Women in Science which talks about the concept of hiring help by women scientists to manage their housework so that their research activities are not disturbed.

17) Few interesting articles on gender issues in biomedical research and women in science in the journal Nature.

18) "Scientist Dads Step Up" - Article in Science magazine
Although women still do most of the parenting, some scientist dads are taking on the role of primary caregiver.

19) Evaluating and Enhancing Women's Participation in Scientific and Technological Research: The Indian Initiatives
A report of National Task Force for Women in Science, DST.



                                                                                                                                              

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 
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