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Category Archives: Women in Science
Has ‘The Rising Tide’ of Women Risen?
Last December a new Government taskforce was launched to address issues about Women in Tech. Led by the Secretary of State at DSIT, Liz Kendall, with Anne-Marie Imafidon alongside, the aim is to ensure women will be better supported to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Women in Science
Tagged bias, Nancy Lane Perham, Women in Tech
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What Voice?
It is more than 40 years since the American psychologist Carol Gilligan wrote her book, In a Different Voice, challenging the view that women were morally less developed than men, pointing out this difference arose because the schema had been … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Carol Gilligan, Caroline Herschel, Gene Machine, Jennifer Doudna, Let Toys be Toys, Roger Highfield
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Botanists in the Family
It is difficult to know where to begin with this post, since several strands have got intertwined. I guess the prompt for this is, as with my last post, the meeting at the Royal Society celebrating women from the past … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Ellen Wilmott, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Boott, Lucy Hardcastle
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Where Were the Women?
I know that many people feel the Royal Society is a stuffy, white male institution, unwelcoming to women and other minorities, but I cannot agree. It may have had a long history of excluding women, but no more and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Eleanor Ormerod, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Royal Society, Stella Butler
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Mrs Handley and the Whippets (Learning to be Difficult)
No, not the name of a pop-group (although it might be quite a good one), but an episode from my early life. In later life I’m sure people had me in the category of those difficult women I wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Women in Science
Tagged Camden School for Girls, feisty, teenagers
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