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While women have made huge strides in the STEM fields, it is obvious that they are still underrepresented. One of the areas where women are most underrepresented in science is space flight. Out of the 556 people who have traveled to space, only 65 of them were women. This means that only 11% of astronauts have been women. [151]
Chung Kwang Hwa (born 1948), physicist and president of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Korean Vacuum Society; Jun Mikyoung, statistician; Kim Eun-Ah (born 1975), condensed matter physicist; Kim Ju-Lee (born 1969), mathematician, educator, now in the United States
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
According to PISA 2015 results, 4.8% of boys and 0.4% of girls expect an ICT career. [40]Studies suggest that many factors contribute to the attitudes towards the achievement of young men in mathematics and science, including encouragement from parents, interactions with mathematics and science teachers, curriculum content, hands-on laboratory experiences, high school achievement in ...
This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics ...
Was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002 and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2003. Received the Adler Planetarium Women in Space Science Award in 2003. [18] Was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004. [19]
The UK-based Muslim Science Magazine [10] praised her as one of the most influential women scientists in the Islamic World; and Arabian Business lists Dajani as one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women," in which she ranked number thirteen.
Hayat Sindi is a visiting scholar at Harvard University; [14] [15] as such, she travels often between Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. [3] Sindi's laboratory work at Harvard earned her a spot with four other scientists in a documentary film supported by the Executive Office of the President of the United States in order to promote science education among young ...