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Article Dans Une Revue Pure and Applied Chemistry Année : 2021

Women in science: from images to data

Catherine Jami

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In recent decades research in the social sciences, including in the history of science, has shown that women scientists continue to be depicted as exceptions to the rule that a normal scientist is a man. The underlying message is that being an outstanding scientist is incompatible with being an ordinary woman. From women scientists’ reported experiences, we learn that family responsibilities as well as sexism in their working environment are two major hindrances to their careers. This experience is now backed by statistical analysis, so that what used to be regarded as an individual problem for each woman of science can now be identified as a multi-layered social phenomenon, to be analysed and remedied as such. Over the last five years, international scientific unions have come together to address these issues, first through the Gender Gap in Science Project, and recently through the setting up of a Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) whose task is to foster measures to reduce the barriers that women scientists have to surmount in their working lives.
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halshs-03368161 , version 1 (17-11-2021)

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Catherine Jami. Women in science: from images to data. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2021, 93 (8), pp.955-961. ⟨10.1515/pac-2021-0201⟩. ⟨halshs-03368161⟩
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