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Calculated on the basis of the current number of doctoral students, the government hopes to obtain a 20% share of women in science, 15% in engineering and 30% in agriculture and health by the end of the current Basic Plan for Science and Technology in 2016. In 2013, Japanese female researchers were most common in the public sector in health and ...
She simultaneously became the first female scientist ever elected a member of the congress. [296] 1975: Indian geneticist Archana Sharma received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the first female recipient in the Biological Sciences category. [297] [298] 1975: Female officers of the British Geological Survey no longer had to resign upon ...
Saba Valadkhan (born 1974), Tehran Education:Columbia University an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University; Ālenush Teriān (1920–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy'
A 2018 study originally claimed that countries with more gender equality had fewer women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Some commentators argued that this was evidence of gender differences arising in more progressive countries, the so-called gender-equality paradox. However, a 2019 correction to the study outlined ...
Building upon prior research from two decades of feminist STS literature, studies adopted principles based on updated frameworks at the turn of the millennium, such as Ellen van Oost's research into how gender becomes configured into electric shavers, [11] Ruth Schwartz Cowan's study on technological innovation increasing women's labor, [12] and Jennifer R. Fishman's exploration of ...
1853: Jane Colden was the only female biologist mentioned by Carl Linnaeus in his masterwork Species Plantarum. [2] 1889: Mary Emilie Holmes became the first female Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [3] 1889: Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman to become a physician in the United States. [4] [5]
What’s the deal with Eliza Taylor’s Quantum Leap character Hannah Carson? Taylor made her first appearance in Wednesday’s episode of the NBC drama as Hannah, a brilliant waitress in 1949 who ...
By the 1990s, computing was dominated by men. The proportion of female computer science graduates peaked in 1984 around 37 per cent, and then steadily declined. [162] Although the end of the 20th century saw an increase in women scientists and engineers, this did not hold true for computing, which stagnated. [163]