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After the Swinging Sixties in the west, women began to feature front and centre of large-budget movies, often in a more serious tone.. An early example was the 1970 film The Andromeda Strain which showed Dr Ruth Leavitt as one of several scientists investigating a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.
The film took part in the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020. [4] It was also nominated for a 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary. [5] A number of research institutions have held screenings of the movie as parts of efforts to increase awareness of gender issues within STEM. [6 ...
Elizabeth M. Ward, American epidemiologist and head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department of the American Cancer Society; Rachel Ward, American mathematician; Christina Warinner, American anthropologist best known for her research on ancient microbiomes; Petra Wilder-Smith (born 1958), American dentistry and cancer researcher
Filmmakers Sara Crow, David Rafailedes and Lara Palmqvist are the SFFILM’s 2024 Sloan Science in Cinema Fellows. In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, these three creatives will be ...
The formation of the Kovalevskaia Fund in 1985 and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World in 1993 gave more visibility to previously marginalized women scientists, but even today there is a dearth of information about current and historical women in science in developing countries.
The film examples given are also a bit outdated. Black Panther was the last film given example, and this movie was produced in 2018. If I were to edit this article, I would probably add one or two more movie examples that relate to the way female scientists have been portrayed in the 2020’s. Zoefeinberg 12:39, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
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 ...
In the 1960s, she was one of three scientists who determined that methadone could be a successful maintenance treatment for an opioid addicted person. Over the years, various drug czars from both political parties have consulted her at Rockefeller University in New York City, where she is a professor and head of the Laboratory of the Biology of ...