Category Archives: women

Futurepub March 2024 – International Women’s Day

Posted on 8 March 2024 by Frank Norman

The latest event in the Futurepub series, on 4 March 2024, took International Women’s Day as its theme. The topics of the talks were related to women and four out of the five speakers were women. It was held at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Admissions in Balance

Posted on 1 September 2017 by Athene Donald

Last October when I sat at the undergraduate Matriculation Dinner and looked across Churchill College’s large Hall, I was dismayed to see that the proportion of Freshers was very far from a 50:50 mix of men and women. I am … Continue reading →

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On portrayals of women in science(y) films

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Sylvia McLain

There is a feminist critical film theory from the 70′s that pointed out (rather astutely) that in many films women where just there to be looked at. Men did stuff, women were present either for visual pleasure, or simply as … Continue reading →

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My guilt from the sidelines

Posted on 13 September 2011 by Steve Caplan

Like a moth drawn to the fire, I can’t stop myself. And I warn the reader that this blog doea not have anything directly to do with science, or life in science–although it does have to do with life. And … Continue reading →

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On some women I happen to find inspirational…. [6]

Posted on 30 July 2011 by Sylvia McLain

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent Eleanor Roosevelt I, like many others, think Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the premier inspirational women. She was an amazing lady, the first First Lady who actually did something with … Continue reading →

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Nicosia, there I went…

Posted on 9 July 2011 by Steve Caplan

A short time ago Larnaca, Cyprus made the news for holding a large civilian wedding for multiple couples from Israel. I have already blogged about the discriminatory policy that a successful start-up country and high-tech power such as Israel has … Continue reading →

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Progress at MIT

Posted on 27 March 2011 by Athene Donald

This week saw the publication of a report from MIT entitled: A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011. This is a follow up report to an earlier ground-breaking report … Continue reading →

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Online women in science

Posted on 22 March 2011 by rpg

Back in January I was in North Carolina to participate in the Borafest—that is, Science Online 2011. The main reason for going was a little project cooked up with Jenny Rohn and Karen James. To wit: we wanted to film … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day: 100 years

Posted on 9 March 2011 by Steve Caplan

Seeing as it’s now exactly almost 100 years since the first celebration of International Women’s Day, I thought it might be important to have some perspective on the equality of women in Israel, a country where I spent many important … Continue reading →

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