#stemwomen — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115612238411849980

Cat Hicks is a psychologist who knows her stuff re technology workers and workplaces. Read this thread and banish forever the thought that 'women are not good at maths' or technology. She cuts through the baseless arguments that people use to support these stereotypes and points out that it is the social environment that causes differences in abilities. If you are surrounded by adults that tell you that girls are not as good at maths as boys, where women avoid maths and laugh about how bad at it they are, where schools actively encourage boys in maths but not girls, then it is no surprise that the learning girl will conclude that maths is not for them.

And don't for a minute think that women are immune from these stereotypes about women! I have had female teachers explaining to me and their students that girls are bad at maths like we were living in the 1950s. It was the 21st century by the way. Women perpetuate these negative stereotypes as much as men.

#discrimination #STEMwomen #WomenInSTEAM

Danna Karagussova becomes the first Kazakh woman to fly to space with Blue Origin timesca.com/first-kazakh... #Kazakhstan #Space #BlueOrigin #WomenInSpace #STEMWomen

First Kazakh Woman Heads to Sp...

MEDICAL JOURNALISTS and STUDENT JOURNALISTS - Time is running out to apply for the Medical Journalists' Association awards

#sciencejournalists #medicaljournalists #Africa #medicalwriters #STEM #stemwomen
Entry closes at midnight on Wednesday May 31, 2023.

See the MJA website for more information:
https://mjauk.org/enter-the-2023-mja-awards/

Calling African science/health journalists and potential journalists!

#sciencejournalists #medicaljournalists #Africa #medicalwriters #STEM #stemwomen

GRANT OPPORTUNITY

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The African Investigative Journalism Conference has launched a grant program to enable journalists to investigate health issues in seven African countries: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa

Any journalist or team of journalists may apply, and the work may be done in any medium/media.

See the link for more information

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgyOCETJm-CIwQB6YwjTW4DnDhniS8CslM2zUXRSBK1YxZhA/viewform

Inspirational women
#stemwomen #medicalwriters

To mark International Women's Day, The Nobel Prize are celebrating women who have changed the world. Visit their website to see all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

https://www.nobelprize.org/

Was Rosalind Franklin a victim of sexism in research?

28 February – 70th anniversary of the day Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Bene’t St, Cambridge, and announced: “We have found the secret of life!” Had he and James Watson discovered the chemical structure of DNA  by nicking Rosalind Franklin’s data, though?

#Stem #medicalwriters #stemwomen

See the whole of the tweet thread here:
https://twitter.com/OddThisDay/status/1630509585780883458