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Homeward Bound was a 10-year program designed to encourage women's participation in science and planned to send the first large (78 member) all-women expedition to Antarctica in 2016. [89] The first group, consisting of 76 women, arrived in Antarctica for three weeks in December 2016. [ 90 ]
For decades, Antarctica has been a masculine realm in popular imagination. These female scientists and explorers are trying to change that. Breaking the Ice Ceiling: The Women Working in ...
First women civilian contractors on Antarctica were Elena Marty and Jan Boyd. [12] 1975. Eleanor Honnywill is the first woman to be awarded the Fuchs Medal from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). [27] The House of Representatives in Australia is asked how many women have gone to Antarctica so far: the answer is one. [17] 1975-1976
Christensen played a major role in her husband's Antarctic expeditions. Archaeologist Waldemar Brøgger , wrote in the cover story of the inaugural issue of the Norwegian magazine Verden I Bilder (The World in Pictures): "In all the excursions, Lars and Ingrid Christensen have been united in the undertaking—in thick and thin, in storm and bad ...
Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research center in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.
Jennie Darlington (née Zobrist, 1924–2017) was an American explorer and, with Jackie Ronne, one of the first women to overwinter on Antarctica, during the winter of 1947-1948. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She and Ronne were part of a team that re-occupied a former U.S. station (from the U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition in 1939) on Stonington Island in 1946.
You can do anything, says woman who took on solo ski challenge across Antarctica. ... Captain Harpreet Chandi, from Derby, covered 1,130km of the Antarctic ice in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes ...
This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of their latest citizenship rather than by country of birth.