This is the first in a series of articles looking at identifying your core values and strengths and developing a life plan that fits with these. This article will deal with how to clear a bit of time and space to get started. In his book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” (1), Stephen R [...]
Paris, UNESCO Headquarters Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 December 2012 Benefiting from the patronage of the UNESCO, the international conference Millennia2015, “An action plan for women’s empowerment” is organized to present the results of the foresight exercise started in 2008. Millennia2015 “Women actors of development for the global challenges” has been launched by The Destree Institute and [...]
From the grad student whose thesis advisor stole her Nobel-winning ideas to the once-ridiculed theorist of dark matter, female scientific excellence has long been snubbed. Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS (born 15 July 1943), known as Jocelyn Bell Burnell, is a British astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student, she discovered the first radio pulsars [...]
An insightful look at four women scientists, all from different countries of origin, as they describe their experiences working in the United States, confronting issues such as gender and its impact on professional advancement, quality of research, and quality of life
I am becoming quite irritated by some of the recent crop of adverts on British television, particularly the British Airways and Virgin Airways offerings. It became particularly pointed when they ran in quick succession recently. The British Airways advert traces the history of the men who developed the routes and made flying safer, leaving their [...]
A project funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) to identify good practice in attracting and retaining more women in science, engineering and technology in Higher Education in Scotland. Background I ran this project in the mid 90’s. The project team came from Stirling and Dundee Universities and we were funded to create [...]
Women who take on leadership roles in academia and business should resist the urge to adopt ‘masculine’ traits such as aggression to get results and use emotional intelligence instead, says psychologist Paula Nicolson from Royal Holloway, University of London in the United Kingdom. A Report from Rachel Bowdens’ blog on Nature Jobs goes further to state that st [...]
Rachel Bowden reports in her nature jobs blog that female postdocs are more positive about their career success to date than female academics, suggesting a more positive outlook for younger generations of scientists, and the availability of flexible working is having a beneficial effect on career development. The gap between men’s and women’s careers in [...]
In The Science Question in Feminism Harding maintains feminist theory is “critical thought” equivalent to that applied by remarkably successful science, while demanding science conform to political, social, financial and gender-based passions of feminist theory. A remarkable paradox, but one frequently heard from archrivals to her radical Right, the Creationists, who also demand science abandon its description [...]
